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  • Next Generation Aircrew Protection team conducts AC-130J vapor purge testing

    The Next Generation Aircrew Protection team performed innovative vapor purge testing on an AC-130J Ghostrider gunship at Hurlburt Field, Florida, from June 24 to December 6, 2024.The NGAP team’s mission is to evaluate how well standard aircraft systems protect aircrews from chemical vapor attacks,

  • Wing announces December promotions

    The following 919th Special Operations Wing enlisted Citizen Air Commandos were promoted in the month of December:Master SergeantCorbin, Aaron Green, Xavier  Lenn, Desiree   Pierce, Jerret    Technical Sergeant  Alvarez, Jefferson  Carr Jr., Robert   Colston, Alvon   Dougherty, Andrew  Duncan, David

  • Exercise Reaper Castillo pathfinds MQ-9 capabilities in austere environments

     An MQ-9 Reaper circles above the Melrose Air Force Range in New Mexico, surveying the area below as it prepares to land on a dirt strip. On the ground the 1st Special Operations Mission Sustainment Team (SOMST) secures the landing zone, ready to refuel and rearm the aircraft.More than 1,100 miles

  • Exercise Reaper Castillo pathfinds MQ-9 capabilities in austere environments

     An MQ-9 Reaper circles above the Melrose Air Force Range in New Mexico, surveying the area below as it prepares to land on a dirt strip. On the ground the 1st Special Operations Mission Sustainment Team (SOMST) secures the landing zone, ready to refuel and rearm the aircraft.More than 1,100 miles

  • Air Commandos Remember the Crew of GUNDAM-22 on First Anniversary

    Nov 29, 2024, marks one year since a CV-22 Osprey, assigned to the 353rd Special Operations Wing, crashed near Yakushima, Japan, while participating in a joint interoperability exercise resulting in the loss of the eight crew members aboard. Air Commandos, family, friends, and community members

  • Airmen, civilians unite to save mother, son from submerged vehicle

    The night was quiet in Navarre, Florida, until a deafening crash shattered the stillness. Moments later, cries for help echoed through the darkness.“All I could think was, someone is dying,” an Airman recalled.A car had veered off the road, crashing through a fence and flipping into a retention

  • Airmen, civilians unite to save mother, son from submerged vehicle

    The night was quiet in Navarre, Florida, until a deafening crash shattered the stillness. Moments later, cries for help echoed through the darkness.“All I could think was, someone is dying,” an Airman recalled.A car had veered off the road, crashing through a fence and flipping into a retention

  • 919th SOAMXS begins new chapter with local ceremony

    The 919th Special Operations Aircraft Maintenance Squadron held an assumption of command ceremony Nov. 3, 2024 marking a new era for aircraft maintenance spanning more than five decades of the Wing’s storied history.Maj. Loren Chargualaf took the reins as squadron commander and the responsibility of

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