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  • ARM team wins AFSOC award 7 years running

    The 27th Special Operations Group was awarded the 2015 Aviation Resource Management Team of the Year for Air Force Special Operations Command for the seventh consecutive year.With approximately 60 Airmen spread across the 27th Special Operations Support Squadron, 16th SOS, 318th SOS, 9th SOS, 12th

  • Diamond Notes: Be your best you this year

    Editor’s note: This is the seventh in a series of commentaries by Cannon’s first sergeants and additional-duty first sergeants providing mentorship and leadership experience to Air Commandos, while highlighting Air Force standards. As we kick-off the second month of 2016, many of us have resolutions

  • Pentagon announces changes to military decorations, awards program

    The Pentagon has made a number of changes to the military decorations and awards program to ensure service members receive appropriate recognition of their actions, according to a statement released Jan. 7.The changes come after a long and deliberate review, a defense official told reporters in a

  • Airmen participation needed for health survey

    The Air Force needs input from Airmen on issues that directly affect the health, well-being and readiness of military members and families by participating in the Health Related Behaviors Survey that will inform the Defense Department of potential health problems in the military community. “Your

  • Free tax services available to military members, families

    With the holidays now over, service members and their families might start looking toward another annual event, albeit one that generally garners far less excitement -- filing taxes.The Defense Department wants service members and their families to know they can get free tax consultations and

  • Medical Materiel Airman orchestrates 27th SOMDG success

    Like stage managers orchestrating a production, members of the 27th Special Operations Medical Support Squadron work behind the scenes at the 27th Special Operations Medical Group to facilitate excellent care during every phase of patient treatment.The Air Force recruiting website, airforce.com,

  • Capt. Jophiel Philips: A Bronze Star recipient shares story

    Lt. Gen. Bradley Heithold, Commander Air Force Special Operations Command, presented a Bronze Star Medal to a 27th Special Operations Wing Judge Advocate here Jan. 12.Capt. Jophiel Philips, 27th SOW/JA, deployed to the Special Operations Joint Task Force Afghanistan legal office at Camp Integrity,

  • 25 years after Operation Desert Storm

    This is a victory for every country in the coalition, for the United Nations… It is a victory for the rule of the law and for what is right. – George H.W. Bush, 41st President of the United States In August 1990, the first major foreign crisis for the United States since the end of the Cold War

  • TRICARE pharmacy copays change Feb. 1

    Military pharmacies and TRICARE Pharmacy Home Delivery will remain the lowest cost pharmacy option for TRICARE beneficiaries when some TRICARE pharmacy copays change Feb. 1. Most copays for prescription drugs in the home delivery program and retail network pharmacies will increase slightly. The 2016

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