Air Force Special Operations Command has a big day planned for Nov. 16, AFSOC commander Gen. Michael Wooley said Tuesday. That’s the date that AFSOC expects to get its first operational CV-22 Osprey aircraft. The Air Commando wing at Hurlburt Field, Fla., will at the same time reactivate the 1st Special Operations Wing, bringing back the designation from AFSOC’s formative days. The existing 16th Special Operations Wing will relocate to the command’s new base at Cannon AFB, N.M. Wooley said standing up a second wing with “equivalent capabilities” at Cannon realizes a vision AFSOC has had for more than a decade—to stand up a new base west of the Mississippi. AFSOC continues to grow and has outgrown Hurlburt, Wooley said.
This year’s Association of the United States Army’s annual meeting buzzed with talk of countering the rapidly evolving drone threat facing the entire U.S. military, including the Air Force. Leaders and defense industry officials discussed the need for new approaches to procurement and employment of a new class of these…
