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  • Airmen provide positive role models through mentorship program

    For nearly two dozen Airmen here, their weekly regimen includes a regular return to junior high school. Not as students mind you, but for at least one hour a week, they serve as mentors to students at Yucca Middle School. The program is similar to the Big Brothers and Sisters program said Jami

  • "Eagle Eyes" program works to increase vigilance

    As a result of the 9-11 terrorist attack, the Air Force implemented an antiterrorism program called "Eagle Eyes," which is run by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. Much like a neighborhood watch program, the Eagle Eyes program is an aggressive Air Force-wide neighborhood watch program

  • Memorial dedicated to fallen Cannon Airman

    The 27th Special Operations Civil Engineering Squadron dedicated a memorial Dec. 3 to Capt. Kermit Evans Sr., an explosive ordinance disposal (EOD) technician who died in Iraq last year. The memorial ceremony, held at 27 SOCES headquarters, took place on the one-year anniversary of his

  • $10M Airmen's center plans under way

    Change is afoot here as plans for a new dining facility (DFAC)/Airman's Center have been drawn up with groundbreaking for the 18-month project planned for early next year. A comprehensive interior design (CID) meeting is scheduled for Dec. 4 at 8 a.m. in the first-floor conference room of the 27th

  • Cannon to update security technology

    Security is a necessity of any military installation, and with technology rapidly accelerating, Headquarters Air Force Special Operations Command has contracted for a survey of surveillance systems to look at different solutions for both Cannon and Hurlburt Field, Fla. Two representatives from

  • Sports -- Cannon's "Lethal Hoops" stomp Dyess' team

    The "Lethal Hoops," Cannon's basketball team bounced to Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, to play their first two real games after a month and a half of practicing. "It was time for us to stop beating up on each other," said Nate Stephens, 27th Special Operations Maintenance Operations Squadron who is