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MoH Recipient John Chapman, Remembered at Camp Cunningham

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan – Personnel from Bagram Airfield and the Special Operations community gathered at the Memorial Courtyard at Camp Cunningham to recognize Medal of Honor recipient, U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. John A. Chapman. During the Medal of Honor commemoration ceremony, Airman from the 26th Expeditionary Special Tactics Squadron (ESTS) remembered the courage and …

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133. Thailand Cave Rescue Part 1

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Operation Wild Boar, the mission to rescue 12 Thai children on a soccer team and their coach captured the world’s attention this summer. Derek, ST PJ and Team Leader on the mission, describes the mission drop, prep and on scene arrival. This is the first of several podcasts by Derek describing the mission and PJs’ …

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Medal of Honor presented to TSgt John Chapman’s family

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WASHINGTON (AFNS) — On what would have been their 26th wedding anniversary, Tech. Sgt. John Chapman’s widow, Valerie Nessel, accepted his Medal of Honor from President Donald Trump during a ceremony at the White House Aug. 22. “We are gathered together this afternoon to pay tribute to a fallen warrior, a great warrior…and to award him …

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DoD Aerial Footage of CCT John Chapman’s final moments

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Tech. Sgt. John A. Chapman will be posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during a 2002 fight against al-Qaida in Afghanistan. The Department of Defense released a video Aug. 9, 2018, of Chapman’s last stand against an entrenched foe.

Special Tactics Airman visits Schriever

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A combat controller with the 24th Special Operations Wing visited Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado to educate enlisted and officer Airmen interested in cross-training into special tactics in the First Term Airmen Classroom, May 1. Tech. Sgt. William Johnson, combat controller in charge of cross-training noncommissioned officers with the 24th Special Operations Wing Special Tactics …

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353rd Special Operations Group wraps up Cobra Gold 2018

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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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Vietnam veteran talks long-term resilience to ST Airmen

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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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Silver Star awarded for Mosul offensive

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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. …

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Air Force Special Tactics, Marine Recon groom joint ground leaders

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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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Air Force to enhance physical fitness test, standards for select career fields

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FROM AF.MIL The Air Force began the rollout of Tier 2 physical training standards as more than 100 battlefield Airmen demonstrated new career field specific testing components at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, Jan. 9, 2018. The adoption of the Tier 2 standards will exempt battlefield Airmen from three of the four components of the …

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MoH Recipient John Chapman, Remembered at Camp Cunningham

133. Thailand Cave Rescue Part 1

Medal of Honor presented to TSgt John Chapman’s family

DoD Aerial Footage of CCT John Chapman’s final moments

Special Tactics Airman visits Schriever

353rd Special Operations Group wraps up Cobra Gold 2018

Vietnam veteran talks long-term resilience to ST Airmen

Silver Star awarded for Mosul offensive

Air Force Special Tactics, Marine Recon groom joint ground leaders

Air Force to enhance physical fitness test, standards for select career fields

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