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  • Men’s Varsity end season with heart

    The men’s varsity basketball team brought home fourth place from the Southeastern Men’s Athletic Conference double elimination tournament Saturday and Sunday at Robins Air Force Base, Ga. There were eight teams total in the conference. Tyndall defeated Hurlburt 74-61 in the semi finals. Hurlburt’s

  • EOD Airmen remove, detonate WWII-era bomb in Pensacola

    Explosive ordnance disposal Airmen from the 16th Civil Engineer Squadron destroyed a Word War II-era explosive device found in Pensacola Tuesday. The 100-pound photo-flash bomb, common to the World War II or Korean War period, was found by construction workers clearing storm debris in the waters of

  • RED HORSE ORI success

    Two RED HORSE Squadron Airmen put on their nuclear, biological and chemical gear as part of an alarm condition red durint the squadron's operation readiness inspection redo recently. The 823rd earned a satifactory rating.

  • AFSOC leaves 16th MDG wounded on court, 57-36

    With 23 three-pointers between Air Force Special Operations Command (10) and the 16th Medical Group (13), the over-30 basketball championship Wednesdsay and playoff game Tuesday in the Aderholt Fitness Center were anything, but uneventful . After a 57-36 upset in the playoff game Tuesday, AFSOC

  • Three college scholarships offered to families

    In the past two years, more than $27,000 have been given in scholarships to military family members seeking educational opportunities. Three types of scholarships are available this year as well through the Hurlburt Spouses Club and First Command Financial Planning: the Turnaround Scholarship worth

  • Two court-martialed recently

     Two Hurlburt Field airmen were convicted in separate courts-martial recently, each receiving jail time and forfeiture of more than $2,000. Airman Basic Aaron Noller, 16th Component Maintenance Squadron, was convicted Monday afternoon of using cocaine on the eve of his first court-martial five

  • BEWARE OF DAWGS

    When you pick up your phone in your office, or you log on to your e-mail in the morning, did you ever stop to think, “Who makes this all possible?” You have the telephone/cable maintenance shop, where the workers are affectionately called “wire dawgs” and “cable dawgs,” to thank for these

  • Black general fulfilled dream

    The Gulf Coast has been a big contributor to America’s air dominance for more than 60 years. It was also the place the first black four-star general called home. Gen. Daniel “Chappie” James Jr., former commander in chief of North American Air Defense Command and Air Force Aerospace Defense Command,

  • Task Force Normandy: Iraq veteran recounts Desert Storm

     The “Through the Eyes of a Commando” living history lecture series continued Jan. 27 in the Airman Leadership School auditorium, where Col. Michael Kingsley retold the story of the first mission of Operation Desert Storm — Task Force Normandy. Colonel Kingsley, currently the commander of the

  • Aircraft Maintenance Squadron; house divided

     Jason Brown and Robert Wadley scored 12 points each as the 16th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron team 1 blasted 16th AMXS 2, 66-38, during an intramural basketball game Tuesday at the Aderholt Fitness Center. The score was neck and neck, with no more than a two-point spread throughout the first half.