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  • ‘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

  • Units, Airman recognized for exceptional performance

    While the Installation Excellence Award team is here, they will pay extra attention to one Airman, one flight, one wing staff agency and three squadrons who were selected for special recognition by Air Force Special Operations Command for outstanding accomplishments in the past year. As the only