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

15th AMU dismantles AFSOC/AFSOF, 73 – 57

The 15th Aircraft Maintenance Unit intramural basketball team had all the right tools to disassemble the game plan of the Air Force Special Operations Command/Air Force Special Operations Forces team Monday night at the Aderholt Fitness Center. Robert Wadley, 15th AMU, was the first on the board

Medical Group gets clean bill of health

The final results are in, and the 1st Special Operations Medical Group received an overall excellent rating on a combined military-civilian inspection conducted at Hurlburt Field in December. A nine-member team from Headquarters, Air Force Inspection Agency and a three-member team from the

Humvee pull