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  • Exercise Reaper Castillo pathfinds MQ-9 capabilities in austere environments

     An MQ-9 Reaper circles above the Melrose Air Force Range in New Mexico, surveying the area below as it prepares to land on a dirt strip. On the ground the 1st Special Operations Mission Sustainment Team (SOMST) secures the landing zone, ready to refuel and rearm the aircraft.More than 1,100 miles

  • Inspiring young minds: 5th annual touch-a-truck event

    Hurlburt Field Airmen volunteered to support the annual Touch-A-Truck event hosted by Navarre High School in Navarre, Florida, Dec. 14, 2024.The event offered children and their families a hands-on look at eight types of vehicles and heavy machinery, while immersing them into the U.S. Air Force and

  • Next Generation Aircrew Protection team conducts AC-130J vapor purge testing

    The Next Generation Aircrew Protection team performed innovative vapor purge testing on an AC-130J Ghostrider gunship at Hurlburt Field, Florida, from June 24 to December 6, 2024.The NGAP team’s mission is to evaluate how well standard aircraft systems protect aircrews from chemical vapor attacks,

  • Hurlburt Field Tree Lighting ceremony kicks off holiday season

    Airmen and their families kicked off the holiday season with the annual Winter Wonderland and Tree Lighting ceremony held at the Memorial Air Park at Hurlburt Field, Florida, Dec. 6, 2024.The event is hosted each year to bring the Hurlburt community together, encouraging connection and inclusion

  • Hurlburt ADAPT notes Impaired Driving Prevention Month

    In the United States during 2022, a staggering 13,524 people were killed in drunk-driving crashes. Accordingly, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is teaming up with the law enforcement community nationwide during the Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over high-visibility

  • "Hands go, hands come": An Airman's journey from Ghana to graduation

    “There were bushfires and famine; people were dying of hunger—it was horrible.”Growing up in Ghana, Staff Sgt. Barfi’s younger years were marked by conflict and adversity, but it was not the challenges that defined him rather, it was the kindness of strangers that shaped the course of his

  • Airmen, civilians unite to save mother, son from submerged vehicle

    The night was quiet in Navarre, Florida, until a deafening crash shattered the stillness. Moments later, cries for help echoed through the darkness.“All I could think was, someone is dying,” an Airman recalled.A car had veered off the road, crashing through a fence and flipping into a retention