Story by Staff Sgt. Benjamin Sutton | 18th Wing | 11.15.2019
A Global Access Special Tactics team from the 320th Special Tactics Squadron conducted a military freefall jump to seize, establish, and control Wake Island Airfield. The 320th STS employs Special Tactics Operators capable of conducting Global Access, Precision Strike, and Personnel Recovery Operations. Launching from Guam, two MC-130J Commando II aircraft rapidly established and controlled......
Story by Capt. Jessica Tait | 353rd Special Operations Wing | 11.30.2017
A silent professional does not seek public glory and often shrugs off accomplishments as a simple fulfillment to their personal ethos and promise to their country. The special operations community is full of these individuals, whose heroic stories are only passed by word of mouth during a squadron gathering or written in a military decoration that never fully captures the human essence of that......
Story by Capt. Jessica Tait | 353rd Special Operations Wing | 07.18.2017
Delivering medical academics in the classroom and hands-on training in the field, the 353rd Special Operations Group medical team proactively engaged with their Australian military counterparts throughout Talisman Saber 2017, a biennial military exercise from June 23 to July 25, 2017, throughout various locations in Australia....
Story by Staff Sgt. Peter Reft | 18th Wing | 03.21.2017
The usual items on a 353rd Special Operations Group cargo and passenger manifest can list Humvees, rafts, ATVs, supply drop crates, special forces Army Soldiers, Air Force pararescuemen, a forward area refueling party, or a platoon of Marines armed to the teeth. However, the manifest listed only a single individual for this flight, the 18th Wing commander, Brig. Gen. Barry “Dawg” Cornish....
Story by Airman 1st Class Lynette Rolen | 18th Wing | 11.17.2016
Pararescuemen from the 31st Rescue Squadron and Japan Air Self-Defense Force participated in a mass casualty exercise as part of Exercise Keen Sword 17, Nov. 10, 2016, off the coast of Okinawa....
