Courtesy: DVIDS Hundreds of family, friends and teammates gathered as U.S. Air Force Col. Claude K. Tudor, Jr., commander of the 24th Special Operations Wing, was promoted to the rank of brigadier general during a ceremony Feb. 8, here. U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Brad Webb, commander of Air Force Special Operations Command, was the …
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U-TAPAO, THAILAND 02.23.2018 Story by Capt. Jessica Tait 353rd Special Operations Group (DVIDSHUB.NET) The 353rd SOG trained side-by-side with their Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) counterparts throughout the exercise, conducting formation and low-level aviation, military free fall (MFF) operations, assault zone establishment and control, fixed and rotary wing fires, rigging alternate method Zodiac (RAMZ) airdrops, an overwater …
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FL, UNITED STATES 02.22.2018 Story by Staff Sgt. Victor J. Caputo 24th Special Operations Wing HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. –The attack left him without his left arm, left eye and inflicted serious wounds to his right hand and legs. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Clebe McClary had given up, he was borderline unrecognizable and waiting to die in …
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From the 24 SOW HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. — The steel enforced car bomb barreled relentlessly toward the joint special operations team … it seemingly came from nowhere. A Special Tactics operator, exposed in an open turret hatch, began to fire the Humvee-mounted M2 machinegun into the large pickup truck, as it hurtled closer and closer. …
From DVIDS MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII, HI, UNITED STATES 01.23.2018 Story by Senior Airman Ryan Conroy 24th Special Operations Wing The police officers rush into the compound, weapons drawn, shouting orders at the men inside the building to surrender. Shots ring out, spent rounds discharge and the police retreat, leaving one officer behind with a gunshot …
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HURLBURT FIELD, FL, UNITED STATES 12.15.2017 Story by Senior Airman Ryan Conroy 24th Special Operations Wing Chief Master Sgt. Michael West, a Special Tactics operator with the 720th Operations Support Squadron, utilized 58 coalition aircraft delivering 24,000 pounds of munitions, turning the tide of battle, and now he’s receiving the Silver Star Medal. During a ceremony …
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