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  • Honor Guard rolls out online request process

    The Hurlburt Field honor guard now utilizes the Web to provide customers a new way of reserving their services. A new link on the honor guard Web site allows members of Hurlburt and the community to request their participation at funerals, retirement ceremonies, weddings and other venues requiring

  • Fit Eagle Competition brings out 'best of best'

    The 4th Special Operations Squadron team won first place during the 17th Annual Fit Eagle competition Feb. 9 at the Aderholt Fitness Center. Sixteen teams participated in a variety of events that included a 5K run, pull-ups, push-ups, sit-ups, sit and reach, tug o' war and a mystery event - the

  • AFSOC announces 2006 safety award winners

    The winners of the 2006 Commando Safety Awards have been announced by Air Force Special Operations Command today. "I am deeply grateful to each award recipient," said Gen. Mike Wooley, AFSOC commander. "Their exceptional hard work and perseverance to keep AFSOC a safe and effective fighting force in

  • 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