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  • Lunch Date with a Parent Plate

    Parents can meet their children for lunch at the child development centers here and receive a free plate of food. The base CDCs provide breakfast, lunch and a snack to more than 400 children during the work week, according to Sharon Brewer, 1st Special Operations Wing Airman and Family Services

  • Congressman Jeff Miller visits 39th IOS

    U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller from Florida's First Congressional District, which includes Hurlburt Field, visited the 39th Information Operations Squadron Nov. 6 here to gain an appreciation for the squadron's mission.The 39th is the Air Force's "Formal Training Unit" responsible for providing Information

  • Hurlburt Field Chapel kicks off Operation Christmas Child

    More than 75 patrons gathered here Nov. 8 at the base chapel to fill shoeboxes and plastic containers with gifts in support of "Operation Christmas Child." Operation Christmas Child began in 1993 through Samaritan's Purse, an international relief program. They work with local churches and ministry

  • If the shoe fits, run with it

    The running clinic here has been offering tips and techniques to help turn Airmen into more efficient runners since 2005.The clinic can find the proper type of running shoes someone should wear, said Brent Cowen, 1st Special Operations Aerospace Medical Squadron exercise physiologist."A lot of

  • Special duties at Hurlburt Field: CPAC leader

    Editor's Note: This is the second article in a series about special duties offered on Hurlburt Field.When one staff sergeant walked into the Commando Pride Airmen Center here to interview for the NCO in charge position, he did not expect to give an impromptu teaching lesson.The career advisor, the

  • Operation Homecoming on Ice

    Staff Sgt. Dwight Hicks, 479th Flying Training Group aviation resource manager, surprised his family with a homecoming during the Pensacola Ice Flyers military appreciation night Nov. 9 in Pensacola, Fla.Col. Thomas Shank, 479th FTG commander, was not only able to participate in the ceremonial puck

  • Hurlburt Airman: first service member to complete new DOD course

    Dr. Jamie Morin, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Financial Management and Comptroller, presented the Air Force's first Department of Defense Financial Management Program-certified Airman with a certificate during his visit here Nov. 4 and 5. "I didn't see it coming," said Senior Airman