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  • Special Tactics trainees attend combat diving course

    Airmen attending the Naval Diving and Salvage Training Center go through dive training with the goal of enabling the safe, timely and effective training of qualified candidates for combined operations in support of national military strategy and national security. Though they are not directly

  • Special Tactics simulates chaos, combat in Estonian village

    Combat controllers sprint through the small, rustic village bearing plate carriers and radios, ducking behind buildings for cover, calling in coordinates and relaying information to the ground force commander. The citizens were imagined as enemy combatants, the village homes into targets for

  • Lt. Gen. Brad Webb visits European Air Commandos

    The leader of Air Force Special Operations Command visited this week Air Commandos stationed here.Lt. Gen. Brad Webb, AFSOC commander, regularly breaks away from the headquarters for an eyes-on appraisal of operations, Airmen and facilities.During this trip to RAF Mildenhall, the general spent time

  • U-28A accident investigation board results released

    Air Force Special Operations Command officials released the results of their investigation into the March 14, 2017 U-28A aircraft accident near Clovis Municipal Airport that killed three Airmen onboard.

  • Ohio highway dedicated to SOF hero

    Six miles of County Highway 121 near Greenville, Ohio, was dedicated Aug. 14 in honor of Master Sgt. William L. McDaniel II, a Special Tactics pararescueman who was killed Feb, 22, 2002, in an MH-47 Chinook helicopter crash in the Philippines.

  • Portraits in Courage: Lt. Col. Schroeder

    On the morning of April 8, 2016, Lt. Col. William Schroeder, a career special operations weather officer, saw an armed individual enter his squadron. He reacted swiftly by putting himself between the armed individual and his first sergeant. After Schroeder ordered her to run, the first sergeant

  • Cannon hosts 10th EMT Rodeo

    Realistic and rigorous training builds muscle memory and composure during high-stress situations. Last week, 21 teams of Air Force medics advanced their combat and emergency response skills at Cannon Air Force Base.

  • Portraits in Courage: SSgt. Lewis

    As the Mosul offensive commenced, Staff Sgt. Christopher Lewis and the U.S. Navy SEAL Team in which he was embedded were tasked to advise, assist, and accompany Kurdish Peshmerga forces in order to clear two villages held by heavily entrenched ISIS fighters.On Oct. 20, 2016, Lewis and his team

  • Portraits in Courage: SSgt. Hunter

    On Nov. 2, 2016, in Kunduz Province, Afghanistan, Staff Sgt. Richard Hunter, the U.S. Army Special Forces Team he was embedded with and their Afghan partners were ambushed by heavy machine gun fire from insurgents in elevated positions as they entered a village.Hunter identified multiple enemy