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U.S. Air Force Special Operations Surgical Teams practiced integration operations with a special operations partner force during a Special Tactics exercise, Hurlburt Field, Fla., Oct. 16, 2015. SOST members are military medical professionals selected to provide battlefield trauma and other surgical support in a special operations mission set. SOST members often forward deploy to austere or hostile areas to perform life-saving trauma surgery for special operators with little to no facility support.


1st Special Operations Surgical Team train with joint forces

U.S. Air Force Special Operations Surgical Teams practiced integration operations with a special operations partner force during a Special Tactics exercise, Hurlburt Field, Fla., Oct. 16, 2015. SOST members are military medical professionals selected to provide battlefield trauma and other surgical support in a special operations mission set. SOST members often forward deploy to austere or hostile areas to perform life-saving trauma surgery for special operators with little to no facility support.

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Sheila McDaniel, the mother of Master Sgt. William L. McDaniel II, provides remarks following a ceremony dedicating a six-mile stretch of Highway 121 in honor of her son's namesake, in Greenville, Ohio, Aug. 14, 2017. McDaniel was part of a joint, special operations team who were infiltrating an island in Southern Philippines when the MH-47 Chinook helicopter he was in crashed into the Sulu Sea Feb. 22, 2002. (U.S. Air Force photo by Wesley Farnsworth)
Air Commandos from the 4th Aircraft Maintenance Unit finish installing a flat baffle on an AC-130U Spooky gunship at Hurburt Field, Fla., May 19, 2017. Flat baffles are replaced on wings of aircraft to improve in-flight aerodynamics. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Dennis Spain)
The Air Force wheelchair basketball team scrimmages during practice at Hurlburt Field, Fla., April 24, 2017. The team is composed of wounded warriors who compete against other Department of Defense teams. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Dennis Spain)
Capt. Jonathan Rodgers, an AC-130U Spooky gunship pilot with the 4th Special Operations Squadron, scans the horizon during a live-fire training mission at the Eglin Range, Fla., April 17, 2017. Aircrew with the 4th SOS conducted a live-fire training mission to ensure mission readiness any time, any place. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Joseph Pick)
Special missions aviators with the 4th Special Operations Squadron reload the 105mm and 40mm canons on an AC-130U Spooky gunship during a live-fire training mission at the Eglin Range, Fla., April 17, 2017. The AC-130U gunship’s primary missions are close air support, air interdiction and armed reconnaissance. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Joseph Pick)
Staff Sgt. Alex Almarales, a special missions aviator with the 4th Special Operations Squadron, conducts preflight inspections of an AC-130U Spooky gunship at Hurlburt Field, Fla., April 17, 2017. The AC-130U gunship’s primary missions are close air support, air interdiction and armed reconnaissance. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Joseph Pick)
Staff Sgt, Shane Hayes, center, a special missions aviator with the 4th Special Operations Squadron, offloads 40mm round shells from an AC-130U Spooky gunship at Hurlburt Field, Fla., April 17, 2017. Aircrew with the 4th SOS conducted a live-fire training mission to ensure mission readiness any time, any place. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Joseph Pick)
Air Commandos push an ammunition cart to an AC-130U Spooky gunship at Hurlburt Field, Fla., April 17, 2017. The AC-130U is equipped with a 25mm Gatling gun, 40mm and 105mm canons, and can take off carrying more than 150,000 pounds of cargo. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Joseph Pick)
Staff Sgt. Joseph Del Hoyo, a special missions aviator with the 4th Special Operations Squadron, takes control of a 105 mm round at Hurlburt Field, Fla., April 17, 2017. Aircrew with the 4th SOS conducted a live-fire training mission to ensure mission readiness any time, any place. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Joseph Pick)
Staff Sgt. Joseph Del Hoyo, a special missions aviator with the 4th Special Operations Squadron, waits to load ammunition onto a AC-130U Spooky gunship at Hurlburt Field, Fla., April 17, 2017. Aircrew with the 4th SOS conducted a live-fire training mission to ensure mission readiness any time, any place. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Joseph Pick)
Air Commandos arrive at Hurlburt Field, Fla., after completing the 6th Annual Air Commando Ruck March April 14, 2017. The Airmen completed the final leg of a 450 miles from MacDill Air Force Base honoring fallen Air Force Special Operations Command members. This year’s ruck march is dedicated to the Air Commandos assigned to the 27th Special Operations Wing at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico, who perished March 14 in a U-28 crash. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Joseph Pick)
Air Commandos arrive at Hurlburt Field, Fla., after completing the 6th Annual Air Commando Ruck March April 14, 2017. The Airmen completed the final leg of a 450 miles from MacDill Air Force Base honoring fallen Air Force Special Operations Command members. This year’s ruck march is dedicated to the Air Commandos assigned to the 27th Special Operations Wing at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico, who perished March 14 in a U-28 crash. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Joseph Pick)