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  • Nothing goofy about this challenge

    About a year ago, Lt. Col. Shelly Rodriguez and the leadership in the 1st Special Operations Wing Safety Office put a renewed emphasis on physical training. As a result, they incorporated mandatory physical training into the work week for all employees. After a few sessions with the personnel in her

  • USAF 7 Summits Challenge takes Airmen to the top of the world

    Capt. Rob Marshall never had the desire to climb Mount Everest. That is, until he stood at its base and looked up. At the time, Captain Marshall, currently a pilot with the 8th Special Operations Squadron, was a newly commissioned 2nd Lieutenant enjoying his final summer before reporting to active

  • Puck divers make waves on Hurlburt wood

    Hat tricks, diamonds, snipers and icing may make Hurlburt Airmen think of hockey rather than magicians, jewelry, riflemen and desserts as the base's newest organized sport gets underway. The Puck Divers, a team of active-duty and retired Hurlburt Airmen who play hockey and dive together, came up

  • AF trash, AFREP treasure

    Somewhere deep in the Canadian foothills, Angus MacGyver is weeping manly tears. A select group of maintainers stationed at Hurlburt Field act as MacGyver, the fictional television jack-of-all-trades, on a daily basis as they take items judged to be of little value by others and rehabilitate them

  • Cannon captain shares students' letters

    Deployments are challenging, but when you have the force of a fifth-grade class cheering you on, anything can be accomplished. With almost 100 handwritten letters in hand from Eyestone Elementary School in Wellington, Colo., Capt. Tyler Moore, 27th Special Operations Wing Equal Opportunity director,

  • Cannon Airmen no "Strangers" to music

    A person can have many talents. For some people, their talents can be as diverse as performing maintenance on an aircraft, accounting for tools and parts, and playing a musical instrument in front of a live audience of peers, coworkers and strangers. For four Airmen, two of whom are currently

  • Airmen meet up 20 years later

    It's been more than 20 years since Master Sgt. Darrell Harris, 27th Special Operations Mission Support Squadron, and Tech. Sgt. Jarvis Moore, 712th Maintenance Squadron (Provisional), became friends during basic training and technical school. It took an assignment to Cannon for them to renew their

  • Airman keys in on Tops in Blue

    Range, dexterity, and patience are some traits that make for a well-trained security forces Airman. For one such Airman here, musical abilities should be added to that list of traits as well. Senior Airman Mark Maddon, 27th Special Operations Security Forces Squadron, uses those traits to enhance

  • Reigning queen rolls 700+ series

    Every bowling alley recognizes its top bowlers, prominently displaying the highest scores earned on its lanes. This denotes royalty, however fleeting it may be. Recently, Hurlburt Field's reigning queen added her name to the "best scores" with a 764 series. Considering that three perfect games equal

  • Try this "shirt" on for size

    "We put out fires," said Master Sgt. George Childers, 27th Special Operations Equipment Maintenance Squadron first sergeant. Sergeant Childers was speaking of the day-to-day routine, or lack thereof, of a first sergeant, who is also often referred to as the "shirt," "first shirt," or "diamond."