The Air Force has decided to put a new Air Force Special Operations Command wing at Cannon AFB, N.M., officials said late Tuesday. Recent speculation had ventured AFSOC as a prime candidate. The move ends the base’s nearly year-long search for a new mission, after BRAC 2005 stripped it of its F-16 mission and put it on life-support through 2009. AFSOC plans to establish its new wing—which will take the appellation 16th Special Operations Wing—by Oct. 1, 2007. The current 16th SOW at Hurlburt Field, Fla., will revert to its former designation as 1st SOW.
A new survey found that record rates of Active-duty military spouses want to leave the military community, with a large number of them frustrated by the difficulty of finding employment, child care, and reimbursement for moving costs after a Permanent Change of Station (PCS) move.