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  • Senior NCO makes fitness contagious at 39th IOS

    Master Sgt. Charles “Tom” Rados was, by his own admission, “the guy in the squadron who wouldn’t run more than 1.5 miles unless someone was chasing him with a bazooka.” His lack of motivation toward running and physical fitness showed as he squeaked by his 2004 and 2005 fitness tests. Feeling sick

  • Program saving base money with repairs

    Chances are you’ve used something on base that was purchased by the Air Force Repair Enhancement Program – a program that has saved more than $500,000 this fiscal year alone. Repairing mission capable parts is the biggest priority of the AFREP. It’s not uncommon for this program to keep our planes

  • Reflections of times gone by: Women in the military

    The women of the Air Force Enlisted Village shared stories of their experiences in the military at a brown-bag luncheon held at Eglin Air Force Base March 8 as a part of their Women’s History Month observation. The group of 20 ladies shared smiles and snacks, while the women of the yesterday’s

  • Operation Thursday: Air Commandos get their start

    Sixty-two years ago, the forerunner of the 16th Special Operations Wing got a fast start in making history. On March 5, 1944, the U.S. Army Air Forces top secret program, Project 9, went into action. According to the study “Operation Thursday – Birth of the Air Commandos” — written by Herbert Mason

  • FitFactor equals fun for Hurlburt children

    Recently, the Air Force designed a program to make its force fit to fight. Now the Air Force has expanded its fitness goals to children of Air Force members with the FitFactor program. Hurlburt Field’s youth program is looking for children ages 9-18 years old to enroll in the Air Force’s FitFactor

  • Rosa Parks – legendary woman, historical times

     Rosa Parks changed history forever when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Ala. city bus on Dec. 1, 1955. At 42 years old, Mrs. Parks boarded a Montgomery bus after completing a long day at work as a tailor’s assistant at the Montgomery Fair Department store. As all

  • 15th SOS rests its wings after four years

    After more than four years, Hurlburt Field finally welcomes home the 15th Special Operations Squadron. Since Sept. 11, at least 25 percent of the squadron has been deployed, other than a two-month break in June of 2003. The squadron flies the MC-130H Combat Talon II, which is specially modified to

  • Front-line forecasting not average day on the job

    Slashing through Burmese jungles with Maj. Gen. Orde Wingate’s Chindits; hunkering down far above the demilitarized zone in North Vietnam; infiltrating into Northern Iraq to ensure the success of a thousand-man airborne jump – not the average day at the office for most weather forecasters. But,