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  • Airmen welcomed home during Operation Homecoming

    A child raises a poster to celebrate her father’s return from deployment during Operation Homecoming at Hurlburt Field, Fla., July 7, 2016. The returning Airmen were welcomed home by family, friends and coworkers. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Dennis Spain)

  • Hurlburt hosts 2nd Annual Healthy Lifestyle Festival

    Health and Wellness Center representatives’ discuss healthy lifestyle choices with shoppers at the 2nd Annual Healthy Lifestyle Festival at Hurlburt Field, Fla., July 8, 2016. The festival was an opportunity for Airmen and their families to be educated on the importance of healthy lifestyle choices.

  • 1st SOLRS Airmen test gas mask for leaks

    Airman 1st Class Maxwell Dean, a material management apprentice with the 1st Special Operations Logistics Readiness Squadron, removes the outlet valve cover of a gas mask before sanitization at Hurlburt Field, Fla., July 7, 2016. The valve must be removed for sanitization to ensure all internal

  • 1 SOMXS Airmen prevent corrosion

    Airman 1st Class Taylor Hill, an aircraft structural maintenance journeyman with the 1st Special Operations Maintenance Squadron, puts on a full-face respirator mask before painting an engine kit at Hurlburt Field, Fla., June 29, 2016. Corrosion specialist wear these masks to protect themselves from

  • Barbeque brings together Hurlburt families, wildlife

    Todd Quinn, a zoology instructor at Lighthouse Christian Academy, holds up a bat for Hurlburt Field children to see during a Key Spouse and Deployed Family Barbeque at the Soundside Marina on Hurlburt Field, Fla., June 23, 2016.Quinn entertained children with various fuzzy creatures in his care

  • 505th CTS re-opens newly renovated facility

    The 505th Combat Training Squadron held a ribbon-cutting ceremony here, June 27, for the re-opening of the Air Component Control Facility, or the “Mezz”, after seven months of construction.The 505th CTS is a tenant unit located here that conducts virtual exercises such as Blue Flag and the Joint

  • Hurlburt agencies partner to promote healthy lifestyle

    More than two dozen children participated in the third week of the 2016 Summer Reading Program at the Hurlburt Field Library June 23.This year the Summer Reading Program theme is Summer Olympics and called ‘Read-for the win.’Week three highlights eating right. Those in attendance learned the

  • Air Commandos cupcake wars

    Air Commandos battled it out in the kitchen at Hurlburt Field, Fla., June 17, 2016. The teams were issued a secret ingredient and competed to earn a spot in the championship showdown at the end of the year.  

  • 1st SOSS: Controlling the air

    Airman 1st Class Patrick Nunn, an airfield systems technician with the 1st Special Operations Support Squadron, pulls a circuit board for inspection at Hurlburt Field, Fla., June 17, 2016. Airfield systems technicians install, remove and maintain navigation and air traffic control ground-to-air