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  • AFSOC announces 2005 communications and information awards

    Air Force Special Operations Command. is pleased to announce the 2005 communications and information award winners. Lieutenant General Harold W. Grant Award – 353rd Operations Support Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Japan Outstanding Field Grade Officer - Major Monti Knode, 16th Communications Squadron,

  • Base engineers interact with Shalimar students

    Hurlburt Field Airmen visited Meigs Middle School in Shalimar to give their expertise to the engineering contest held last week as part of National Engineers Week. Nine engineers from base, members of the Society of American Military Engineers, gave presentations to the class about engineering and

  • Air Force welcomes arrival of first combat-configured CV-22 Osprey

    Air Force leadership accepted the keys for the first combat-configured CV-22 Osprey from Bell Boeing Wednesday in a ceremony at the Bell manufacturing facility in Amarillo, Texas. While earlier versions of the CV-22 tiltrotor aircraft are in use as test assets, this is the first of the "Block B/10"

  • AFSOC announces civil/human rights award winner

    Air Force Special Operations Command is proud to announce Tech. Sgt. Antonio Garcia, 21st Special Operations Squadron, RAF Mildenhall, England, as the AFSOC nominee for the 2006 National Image, Inc. Meritorious Service Award. This award recognizes a military member who has distinguished himself or

  • AFSOC announces spouse of the year

    Air Force Special Operations Command is proud to announce Mrs. Cynthia A. Maling as the 2006 nominee for the Joan Orr Air Force Spouse of the Year Award. Mrs. Maling is the wife of Tech. Sgt. Nathaniel D. Maling, assigned to the 4th Special Operations Squadron here. Mrs. Maling has distinguished

  • AFSOC Verne Orr award recipient named

    Air Force Special Operations Command is proud toI announce the 23rd Special Tactics Squadron, Hurlburt Field, as the AFSOC nominee for the 2006 Verne Orr Award. This award is presented annually by the Air Force Association and recognizes an Air Force unit which makes the most effective use of its

  • AFSOC Vanguard award recipient named

    Air Force Special Operations Command is proud to announce Tech. Sgt. Jason M. Bloom, 16th Special Operations Squadron, Hurlburt Field, as the AFSOC nominee for the 2006 Noncommissioned Officer Association Vanguard Award. This award is sponsored annually by the NCOA to recognize an enlisted member

  • Advertising team spotlights special ops

    An aircrew displaying teamwork while firing 105mm artillery from their gunship at night and in the weather; Special operators freefalling toward Earth at terminal velocity; Battlefield Airmen descending from hovering helicopters by rope, piloting small unmanned aerial vehicles, and calling for close

  • Men’s Varsity end season with heart

    The men’s varsity basketball team brought home fourth place from the Southeastern Men’s Athletic Conference double elimination tournament Saturday and Sunday at Robins Air Force Base, Ga. There were eight teams total in the conference. Tyndall defeated Hurlburt 74-61 in the semi finals. Hurlburt’s

  • EOD Airmen remove, detonate WWII-era bomb in Pensacola

    Explosive ordnance disposal Airmen from the 16th Civil Engineer Squadron destroyed a Word War II-era explosive device found in Pensacola Tuesday. The 100-pound photo-flash bomb, common to the World War II or Korean War period, was found by construction workers clearing storm debris in the waters of