27th Special Operations Wing News

  • The Private Resident Housing Council is a Department of Defense directive to assist with residents living in on-base private housing at Cannon Air Force Base on Feb. 26, 2021. The PRHS is meant to make communication between residents and the Military Housing Office more efficient. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Drew Cyburt)

    An Interesting (Housing) Development

    The newly formed Private Residence Housing Council is available to all residents living in private
  • 1st Lt. Bryan Driskell, an AC-130W Stinger II aircraft pilot with the 16th Special Operations Squadron, stands in front of his assigned aircraft at Cannon Air Force Base, N.M., Jan. 27, 2021. Driskell had decided to become a pilot after taking a flying class during his sophomore year at the Air Force Academy. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Vernon R. Walter III)

    Changing Paths, Finding Skies

    As Cadet Bryan Driskell, who had sworn he would never want to fly for his first year at the Air

  • Best Job I Ever Had

    “Alright, just push the button and send it all the way.” “...all the way?” “All the way.”I did as
  • Snow sits on the nose of an aircraft (center screen) on the flightline

    Ice Ice, Baby

    CANNON AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. --
  • Cannon Airman practice improvisation techniques for theatre club.

    The Show Must Go On

    The newly formed theatre club, base and local community members get an opportunity to express themselves artistically while still maintaining COVID-safe practices.
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  • Photos of Airmen during Tuskegee heritage flight

    Travis AFB Airmen advance Tuskegee lineage

    A crew of 27 Black Airmen from Travis Air Force Base flew a heritage flight on a C-5M Super Galaxy, honoring Tuskegee Airmen, Feb. 19-21 — a rare feat as only 2% of the Air Force are pilots and only 2% of those pilots are Black, according to Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Jr.
  • Then, U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. John “Karl” Marks poses with an A-10 Thunderbolt II at King Fahd Air Base, Saudi Arabia, during Operation Desert Storm on February 28, 1991, next to now, Lt. Col. Marks posing with the A-10 nearly 30 years later at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., Feb. 22 2021. (U.S. Air Force courtesy photos provided by Lt. Col. Marks)

    Desert Storm attack pilot integrates 30-years of tactics with new technology

    A Tyrannosaurus rex replica named “Stan” proudly stands in front of the Google Corporation’s headquarters in California. With his threatening gaze and gaping mouth, he provides a stark contrast to the rest of the campus. Google highlights the extinct apex predator as a sobering reminder innovation is more than just a term – we must ‘innovate or die’.

  • Roth outlines priorities for Air, Space Forces during virtual ‘fireside chat’

    Acting Secretary of the Air Force John Roth made his comments about Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and the new administration as well as a range of other topics during a 30-minute “virtual fireside chat” at the Air Force Association’s Aerospace Warfare Symposium.
  • operating a compact track loader

    Just enough, just in time: AFCEC targets rapid airfield repair solution

    For the past three years, lab experts have been perfecting the technology, equipment and processes to deliver a capability called expedient and expeditionary airfield damage repair, or E-ADR.
  • U.S. Air Force Airmen assigned to the 8th Expeditionary Air Mobility Squadron offload a Negatively Pressurized Conex-Lite from a C-17 Globemaster III at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, Aug. 3, 2020. The NPC-Lite is an isolated containment chamber designed to transport individuals with infectious diseases, such as COVID-19. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Lauren Parsons)

    Negative for Covid-19

    The Negatively Pressured CONEX and NPC-Light. A solution of transforming existing 40-foot CONEX containers into air-mobile biocontainment isolation wards.
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