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  • Hanscom begins Network-as-a-Service experiments

    HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. – The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center here awarded two Network-as-a-Service agreements today for a total of $121 million, freeing Airmen currently assigned to support base network operations to transition into core Air Force mission cyber operations. The team

  • Cannon load crew continues hot streak of perfection

    As I stepped into the enormous hangar with my camera bag slung over my shoulder, I spotted the team I had heard so much about; the team I was specifically there to meet. The trio, led by Tech. Sgt. Christopher Shamburger, greeted me near an MQ-9 Reaper that was tucked between one of the walls of the

  • Meet the commanders: 27th SOCPTS - Maj. John Forbes

    Note: This is part of a planned series of commentaries from commanders across Cannon Air Force Base Sir Isaac Newton is attributed with saying, “if I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” I’m sure each of you can vividly picture your own personal giants - those intrepid

  • A new rider's take on the Season

    “If you haven’t realized it yet, you’re not paying much attention,” I was once told. “The military is like one giant car club. You’ve got the Subarus, the muscle cars, the trucks and everything in between.” What they forgot to mention was the amount of servicemen and women who ride motorcycles. Not

  • Teachers learn about deployments

    Teachers and staff from Clovis, Portales, and Melrose schools participated in an event aimed to educate them on the challenges deploying military members face, here, Sept. 8, 2018 The Teachers Understanding Deployment Operations program allowed teachers face-to-face interaction with military members

  • Cannon Hosts 2nd Annual Suicide Prevention 5K

    September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. This is a time for Airmen and others to focus on suicide prevention, and to remind them to take care of one another.With all of the high profile suicides in recent years such as Anthony Bourdain, Robin Williams and Kate Spade, it’s important

  • Forging a brotherhood with fire

    CANNON AIR FORCE BASE, N.M.—The hallways were without a single light. Dark and without noise. On each side of the wide, carpeted indoor passage were smooth wooden doors leading to sleeping quarters of dozens of firefighter Airmen sleeping through the night. Not a call came throughout the evening,

  • 27 SOLRS Receives Daedalian Award

    The Order of Daedalians Maj. Gen. Warren R. Carter Logistics Readiness Award was presented to Maj. Lucas Choate, 27th Special Operations Logistics Readiness Squadron Commander, by retired Lt. Gen. Nicholas Kehoe at Cannon Air Force Base, August 15. The Daedalian award was given to the 27th SOLRS for

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