PENSACOLA – The U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, welcomed 16 local families of fallen military heroes to the Pensacola Regional Airport on Thursday before their flight to a Snowball Express event in Fort Worth, Tex.

HURLBURT FIELD — The Hurlburt Field Chapter of the Air Force Association gave 24 Air Commandos of the 1st Special Operations Wing unsung hero awards during a Dec. 4 ceremony at the Soundside Club.

HURLBURT FIELD, Fla.-- -- Hurlburt Field officials have allowed use of the Kerwood Gate for outbound traffic beginning Monday, Nov. 25.

HURLBURT FIELD - "I was only attached to these guys for just one mission but it was the most important mission of my life," said Maj. F. Damon Friedman, an Air Force Special Operations Command special tactics officer who was briefly assigned to an Army task force while serving in Afghanistan.

Chief Master Sgt. Richard Parsons, Air Combat Command command chief, visited several ACC units at the 15th Aircraft Maintenance Unit hangar at Hurlburt Field last Wednesday.

Dr. Jamie Morin, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Financial Management and Comptroller, presented the Air Force's first Department of Defense Financial Management Program-certified Airman with a certificate during his visit to Hurlburt Field last week. 

A little more than a year after the local Vets to VA program was restarted, supporters of the Santa Rosa Veterans Memorial Foundation are hosting a golf tournament to benefit the program at Hidden Creek, starting at noon on November 22.  Some of the proceeds from the event will also support The Boys and Girls Club of the Emerald Coast.