Eglin Air Force Base - The 20th Space Control Squadron Airmen led the first joint Walton County Sheriff’s Office and Eglin first responders to conduct active shooter training here, June 27.
Hurlburt Field - Team Hurlburt gathered together to remember Operation Eagle Claw at a memorial ceremony June 23, and pay tribute to the five Air Commandos assigned to the 8th Special Operations Squadron and three Marines who lost their lives during the mission.
Camp Lejeune, North Carolina - For the first time in history, members from another service spent three months in Marine Special Operations Command’s Individual Training Course, with one goal in mind: learn how to lead a joint ground force.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Florida presented the Ron Mobayed Military Big of the Year award to Master Sgt. Carl E. Byrd Sunday at First City Church. The Big of the Year award is presented to the Big Brother or Big Sister who has gone above and beyond as a positive role model.
King Abdulla Special Operations Task Center, Jordan -- One by one, parachutes pop open, silhouetted in the Jordanian sunset as joint nation special operations forces float toward the desert terrain below—completing a military free fall from 18,000 feet out of a U.S. Air Force C-130H Hercules.
Eglin Air Force Base - Aircraft from the 53rd Wing and 96th Test Wing deployed for a two-week exercise in Alaska to test F-15 and F-16 systems in a realistic threat environment.
The Operational Flight Program Combined Test Force teamed with a number of units across the 53rd WG and the 96th TW to execute F-15C, F-15E and F-16 flight tests from April 25 to May 13.
Security Forces UPDATE 2: Beginning June 7, anyone seeking access onto Eglin AFB using a state identification issued from Alaska, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia or Washington will no longer be authorized access without providing an alternate identification credential. Individuals who fall under this category who do not have alternate identification credentials may be escorted onto the installation. For information regarding each states REAL ID status, please visit the website, or contact the base pass and registration section.
Explosions reverberate throughout the city, and rapid gunfire echoes off the stucco buildings as a joint nation special operations force fast-ropes onto a three-story building to infiltrate the hostile city.
Hurlburt Field - The Air Force Special Operations Air Warfare Center was inactivated, and the 492nd Special Operations Wing was activated during a ceremony here, May 10. Simultaneously, the 492nd Special Operations Group and the 492nd Special Operations Training Group were activated under the 492nd SOW.
