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  • The making of an air commando

    [Editor's note: This article reprinted from Airman magazine, December, 1966] I had never heard the song before, but the melody was vaguely familiar: "Swamp rat, swamp rat, where do you hi-ide? "Come out in the open and I'll be your guy-ide." The raspy voice bounced off the tall pines in Kisatchie

  • Spooky gunships rearm with new cannons

    Spooky is about to get a little scarier.Crews at Hurlburt Field, Fla., have put the finishing touches on the first AC-130U Spooky gunship armed with the 30 mm Bushmaster cannon. The rearmed Spooky retains its 105 mm cannon but replaces the 25 mm and 40 mm guns with Bushmasters. The project is a

  • 2006 Financial Management Award Winners

    The AFSOC financial management awards recognize individuals and teams for excellence and ingenuity in financial management. The AFSOC winners will be submitted for Air Force level awards. AFSOC recognizes the following installation-level individual award winners: · Maj. Lance D. Whitfill, 1st

  • Appeals speed up via Virtual MPF

    Active-duty Airmen seeking a correction to or removal of an evaluation report may now receive quicker results by initiating an appeal to the Evaluation Reports Appeal Board which became available through the virtual Military Personnel Flight Monday. When members apply for an ERAB, they are

  • Commander In Chief's Installation Excellence Award

    Hurlburt Field is in a three-way race with Columbus Air Force Base, Miss. and Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, to determine the winner of this year's Installation Excellence Award.What can you - the Airmen - do to help us prove we are the best base in the Air Force?- Educate yourself. Find out if your unit