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  • Fit Eagle Competition brings out 'best of best'

    The 4th Special Operations Squadron team won first place during the 17th Annual Fit Eagle competition Feb. 9 at the Aderholt Fitness Center. Sixteen teams participated in a variety of events that included a 5K run, pull-ups, push-ups, sit-ups, sit and reach, tug o' war and a mystery event - the

  • Motorcycle safety saves lives

    Hurlburt's Air Commandos are our most valuable assets. This is clear in the Special Operations Forces truth that "Humans are more important than hardware," and in our wing Aimpoint of "Taking best care of our wingmen, families and resources." The 1st Special Operations Wing has recently seen an

  • The making of an air commando

    I had never heard the song before, but the melody was vaguely familiar: "Swamp rat, swamp rat, where do you hi-ide? "Come out in the open and I'll be your guy-ide." The raspy voice bounced off the tall pines in Kisatchie National Forest in central Louisiana: I'm a friendly guerilla who'll take you

  • Airman found dead Jan. 31

    A master sergeant from the 1st Special Operations Component Maintenance Squadron was found dead Jan. 31 in Pensacola. Master Sgt. Eric Einan, 45, was found dead near Seventh Avenue and Maxwell Street after his car was discovered by Pensacola police department a few hours earlier at Seventh Avenue

  • 1st SOMXG secretary mourned

    A memorial service was held Thursday for Sandra Kay Waters, 1st Special Operations Maintenance Group, in the Hurlburt Chapel. Mrs. Waters, who passed away last week from cancer, helped Col. Socrates Greene, 1st SOMXG commander, take care of the men and women of the 1st SOMXG. She was awarded the Air

  • ‘Holy Smokes’ Fire consumes 262 acres near Hurlburt

    Fire consumed 262 acres of Eglin Air Force Base property Jan. 31 following a 720th Operations Support Squadron training session on a range just outside Hurlburt Field. No one was injured, but clouds of light brown smoke rose from the blaze for more than three hours. According to environmental

  • Deployed site pauses for Chapman memorial

    I was in country for a little over week, but nothing defined my role in this war or my place in the Air Force more than this one night. It was late in the afternoon as we gathered up for formation. Support personnel and special operators from all the joint services stood side by side as we waited

  • Hurlburt Airmen hit ice

    It's difficult to conceive, Hurlburt Field Airmen playing ice hockey in Florida. Yet, many members of Team Hurlburt are also members of minor league ice hockey teams in the Northwest Florida Hockey League which plays October to April in the Pensacola Civic Center. Seven Airmen are members of the

  • Hurlburt increases automated civilian personnel services

    Hurlburt Field's civilian employees will soon see more functions within Civilian Personnel Flights automated, much like Airmen have seen through virtual Military Personnel Flight initiatives. According to Dolly Holbrook, 1st Special Operations Mission Support Squadron human resource officer, future

  • IEA: A Team Hurlburt “no fail” success

    From the moment they arrived, the Installation Excellence Award Inspection Team members validated that there's something special about Hurlburt Field no-fail people. Their vehicle "assaulted" and taken down; forced out of the bus to don uniforms in the woods; pushed into a humvee and driven to The