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  • Green Beret Experience: Air Commandos try ground ops

     The United States Special Operations Command owes its existence to Operation Eagle Claw, a joint mission that fell apart over the deserts of Iran in 1980. Since USSOCOM’s 1987 activation, Special Operations Forces from each branch of the DoD have trained extensively on how to work as a team. For

  • Special Observance: Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday

    Observance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday will occur January 16th with the theme, ‘Remember! Celebrate! Act! A Day On, Not a Day Off,’ to honor the first African-American and non-U.S. President to receive an official holiday.  This holiday reiterates the importance of using the examples

  • Protect your skin in the colder months

    It’s cold outside and you might think that sun protection is for the summer.  Even though the temperature is cooler, the sun is still powerful, so continue to wear sunscreen with sun protective factor (SPF) of at least 15 with both UVA and UVB protection every day.Though you may want that sun-kissed

  • Cannon after dark: A night in photos

    Like any job at any time, the work comes in waves for the Air Commandos who take care of Cannon’s air assets through the night. Late on a quiet night in November, some of the Airmen fleshing out Air Force Special Operations Command’s “any place, any time, anywhere” mission offered their thoughts on

  • Show Me the Money: Successfully navigate 2017 tax season

    It’s about that time of year where some of us ask the government to return the extra money we paid in taxes, while others pay the government a hefty bill because they unknowingly misconstrued the 74,608-page-long federal tax code. Yeah, it’s 187 times longer than it was a century ago, and even most

  • Aircraft Structural Maintenance breathes new life into historic Pave Low

    As resilient and durable as the U.S. Air Force’s aircraft are today, they are still susceptible to damage from the result of day-to-day mission operations. The responsibility of repairing these impaired aircraft and ensuring their structural integrity before returning them to the fight falls on the

  • Health Alert: Curry County sees rise in Fifth Disease

    Recently, there has been a slight spike of Fifth disease in children living in Curry County, N.M.  The Cannon Air Force Base Public Health Office has collaborated with the Cannon Pediatric Clinic and local county health departments to investigate the situation.  Normally, a rise in Fifth disease

  • 16th SOS hosts, teaches local MESA students

    The 16th Special Operations Squadron welcomed students from Portales High School into the special operations fold for a lesson in advanced math, engineering and science as employed by the warfighter, Dec. 9 at the 27th Special Operations Wing. Roughly 30 students belonging to the high school’s Math

  • Cannon’s weather flight: Predicting the unpredictable

    Since becoming home to the 27th Special Operations Wing nearly 10 years ago, the eastern New Mexico skies have played host to an assortment of platforms ranging from gunships to remotely piloted aircraft.More often than not, Mother Nature favors the wing mission, allowing operators to hone their

  • Everyday excellence: Honor Guard celebrates victory

    Veteran’s Day weekend was a busy one for Cannon’s Base Honor Guard, according to the program’s manager, Tech. Sgt. Travis Eldridge. But the team’s efforts were rewarded when they won in their category at Saturday’s Clovis, N.M., Veteran’s Day parade.“We won the first place trophy for veterans’

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