Story by Staff Sgt. Matthew Britton | U.S. Special Operations Command Europe | 12.12.2017
AMARI, ESTONIA – “One minute!,” a U.S. Air Force Special Operations rope master shouts back to a team of Estonian and U.S. Special Operations Forces from the ramp of a U.S.A.F. CV-22 Osprey with the 352d Special Operations Wing. “One minute!,” they thunder back over the sound of powerful rotors, as they prepare to fast rope out the back of the aircraft. U.S. SOF conducted......
Story by Capt. William Leasure | U.S. Special Operations Command Europe | 07.21.2017
ODESSA, Ukraine-- Across Southern Ukraine, U.S. special operations forces trained with Ukrainian SOF and conventional U.S. and Ukrainian naval forces during Sea Breeze 17, July 10-21....
Story by Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Parkinson | 1st Special Operations Wing | 05.25.2017
Florida Air National Guard Detachment 2 has been at Hurlburt since December 2015 and are only a few Airmen away from fulfilling all of their full-time positions....
Story by Airman 1st Class Joseph Pick | 1st Special Operations Wing | 04.21.2017
Maj. Ryan Mittelstet, Maj. Brett Cassidy and Tech. Sgt. Christopher Nin were awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross during a ceremony at Hurlburt Field, Fla., April 21, 2017. While assigned to the 8th Expeditionary Special Operations Squadron, Mittelstet, Cassidy and Nin were onboard a CV-22 Osprey conducting a mission to evacuate American citizens during a civil war in Africa. While......
Story by 1st Lt. Christopher Sullivan | 352nd Special Operations Wing | 03.09.2017
Two of the Osprey’s four crew positions are manned by enlisted special mission aviators, a job which requires them to maintain currencies and stay proficient on, not only two distinct roles, but two physically separate locations on the aircraft....
Story by Senior Airman Ryan Conroy | 1st Special Operations Wing | 01.28.2016
Two 1st Special Operations Wing Airmen have been nominated for the 2015 Cheney Award by distinguishing themselves through conspicuous acts of valor during an aerial flight while deployed in support of combat and humanitarian operations....
Story by Tech. Sgt. Chrissy Powers | 501st Combat Support Wing | 12.10.2013
The sound of aircraft is a regular occurrence at most U.S. Air Force bases, but at RAF Fairford those noises are only heard when another unit comes in to test a new capability, evaluate their ability to deploy or for the annual Royal Internal Air Tattoo....
Story by Airman 1st Class Alexx Pons | Air Force Special Operations Command | 11.02.2012
This feature is the 19th in a series of Air Commando highlights at Cannon.
