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The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office and Hurlburt Office of Special Investigation discovered an explosive device in the back of a truck that had base access after receiving an anonymous tip Tuesday morning. At about 6 a.m., deputies received an untraceable call and alerted Hurlburt Security personnel of the potential danger. The male voice had warned that a man working at Hurlburt Field had explosives on his truck. Hurlburt Field security levels were raised at 10 a.m. when morning searches for the truck came up empty. The caller's partial description eventually led investigators to a man with access to the base...

3/28/2006 - HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. (AFPN) -- "I wanna be on something that shoots," said retired U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. R. Lee Ermey. That's exactly what the host of the History Channel's "'Mail Call" got when he and his crew spent two days at Hurlburt Field filming for an upcoming show. Best known for movie roles such as the hard-as-nails basic training drill instructor in "Full Metal Jacket," "Gunny" Ermey attracted a crowd wherever he and the film crew went. The Airmen of the 16th Special Operations Squadron got a kick out of having a bona fide movie star...

WASHINGTON — Sen. Hill ary Rodham Clinton has en listed one of Bill's former for eign-policy foot soldiers — who once demanded Democrats "think straight about war" —to toughen up her message on na tional security and Iraq. Heather Hurlburt, a hawkish former top speechwriter and policy planner at the State Department and White House, has been hired heading into a 2008 White House campaign season that is being dominated by homeland security and Iraq issues. Clinton has staked out a moderate position on Iraq along with Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) and former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner in this first...

HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. (AP) - Four victims of an Iraqi air force plane crash were stationed at Hurlburt Field in the Florida Panhandle, a newspaper reported Wednesday. Military sources told the Northwest Florida Daily News that the four killed in Monday's turboprop crash were the first Hurlburt-based air commandos to die in the Iraqi war. Their names and unit have not been released.(snip) The Tampa-based Central Command issued a statement saying the plane was on an operational mission. No other details have been released about the mission or the cause of the crash. The single-engine plane is normally outfitted to...

I don't normally "do" vanities. Heck, I rarely post articles. But I absolutely have to get some attention to what Hurricane Ivane did to Pensacola and some of the nearby communities. The landscape has changed. Tens of thousands are now without homes or businesses. Roads needed for resupply are out. Power is out and food supplies for many miles are threatened. Grocery stores don't have power. Power may take weeks to restore, water 6 weeks or more.

HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. (AP) - They don't wear green berets. Hollywood hasn't glamorized their exploits in exotic lands. Even within their own service they are a sometimes overlooked and underappreciated bunch. They are air commandos of the 6th Special Operations Squadron, possibly the least well-known Air Force special operations unit, whose main expertise - teaching the finer points of air power to less developed foreign forces - happens to fit neatly with the U.S. goal of building coalitions for the war on terror.Whether the 6th SOS would become involved if war should come to Iraq, no one here will discuss....