Hurlburt Field News

A large group gathered in a hangar located at the Laguna Army Airfield here on Wednesday to witness the formal transfer of the Special Operations Terminal Attack Control Course from the managerial authority of the Army to the Air Force.

Okaloosa County Sheriff's Deputy Mike Smith says a 911 medical emergency call he responded to June 26th turned into "an absolutely incredible experience". Deputy Smith helped Jennifer Smith of Clark Drive in Fort Walton Beach deliver a healthy 8 pound, 14 ounce baby boy.

Families and friends of Hurlburt Field airmen deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan gathered at the 16th AMU hangar to welcome their loved ones home Saturday, July 4. Roughly 166 airmen, who had been gone for as long as one year, returned as part of Operation Homecoming.

When food is airlifted, bombs dropped or radio messages broadcasted over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, those operations are ordered by the Combined Forces Air Component Commander or CFACC.

A proposal to annex a roughly 3-mile stretch of Hurlburt Field is Mayor Chuck Bolton's plan to make his city larger.

Thousands of Okaloosa County's better-paid public servants don't get their paychecks from any state, county or city office.

It wasn't "Grand Theft Auto" but grand theft figured into the arrest of a backpack-wearing crack user who admitted stealing Nintendo game systems to sell for drugs.

HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. -- Members of the 505th Command and Control Wing may not be known for conducting search and rescue missions, but when a litter of kittens was trapped in a wall June 22 here, wing members knew just what to do.

Airman 1st Class Nadia Katana bottle-feeds a kitten that was cut out of a wall June 22 at Hurlburt Field, Fla.

A specially modified 46th Test Wing NC-130H aircraft equipped with the Advanced Tactical Laser weapon system fired its laser while flying over White Sands Missile Range, N.M., successfully hitting a target board located on the ground.

Senior Airman P.J. Canabal had a pretty clear notion of what he wanted when he got transferred to Cannon Air Force Base.

She's rescued crews from combat zones and flown special operations missions. She's been shot at and banged up, but she's always made it home.

A new static display is being dedicated at Maxwell Air Force Base today. A Sikorsky MH-53M Pave Low IV helicopter stands in front of the Air Force Researxc Institute.

Two AC-130 Spectre gunships left Hurlburt Field, Fla. on May 19. They never returned.

Sergeant Pahukoa and a group of Airmen from nearby Manas Air Base visited the center in their off-duty time to do various improvement projects and play with the children.

What should be a significant military celebration in Northwest Florida probably will pass quietly unnoticed, in contrast to last week's Memorial Day observance.

Paul W. Airey mentored scores of enlisted airmen during his years as the first chief master sergeant of the Air Force.

It's the news any father, especially a police officer who investigates crashes, hopes to never get.

A pair of accidents on Memorial Day left an elderly man dead and a young man in critical condition.

What will happen in Iraq when the United States draws down its troops there? Memorial Day weekend is a good time to ask such a difficult and unsettling question.