Hurlburt Field

Hurlburt Field, located just west of Fort Walton Beach, Fla., is a base with unique challenges and a very special job to do.

"Any Time...Any Place" is the motto of the 16th Special Operations Wing, the host unit at Hurlburt Field. As key players in such military contingencies as the capture of Manuel Noriega in Panama, Operation Desert Storm, Operation Provide Hope in Somalia, Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti and operations Deny Flight and Joint Endeavor in the former Yugoslavia, the airmen of the 16th SOW have proven their motto to be true.

Hurlburt Field is the home of Air Force Special Operations. But several other organizations at the base are assigned to other Air Force commands and play an important role in national defense.

Air Force Command and Control Training and Innovation Group (C2TIG) conducts instruction and wargaming for joint air ground operations and develops and evaluates warfighter tactics, techniques and procedures to support joint air operations worldwide. More than 4,000 military personnel participate each year in the group's Battlestaff Training School's Blue Flag and Warrior Flag exercises.

Also noteworthy is the 823rd Red Horse Squadron, a heavy civil engineering construction unit that is self-contained and can rapidly deploy to support U.S. forces around the world. Red Horse airmen have supported operations in Vietnam, Desert Storm, Somalia and Bosnia. Squadron airmen are often the first military personnel in a theater of operations and are prepared to meet all civil engineering challenges, in keeping with their motto "Can Do, Will Do, Have Done."

Hurlburt also is home to the Air Force Combat Weather Center, which operates under the Air Force Weather Agency and the Air Force Director of Weather. AFCWC examines Air Force,Army, and special operations battlefield weather needs and evaluates emerging weather technologies to assist battlefield commanders.

Other organizations at Hurlburt Field include Detachment 1, 334th Training Squadron, Detachment 7 of the 373rd Training Squadron, and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.