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MOST URGENT:
Burial Service for James Caniford (MIA Recovered from Laos). Graveside
Service will be at 1:00 p.m. (E.S.T.) Wednesday, 28 May 2008
Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors and a flyover.
Please attend if able.
Welcome to our new Website look and feel!
We have worked hard to develop a new menu system located
on the left of each page to assist you
finding your way around the website.
It is clean and mean like a brand new airframe
(we hear even a Navigator can't
get lost using it)!
If you want to return to the main page at any time, click the large banner on
top of all pages...How easy is that? Try it out and let us know what you think!
2008 Annual Reunion initial information is posted!
This link (or use the new menu
on left) takes you to the
reunion page for you to reserve rooms now
directly to the Spectre Reunion site
6October 8-13, 2008
MUCH MORE BELOW: SCROLL DOWN
And please sign our guestbook in our Menu under "Spectre History"...Thanks!
THE STORE IS
OPEN
NEW!!! Clearance Items are available in
limited quantities
Now you can get all the Spectre Merchandise
Goodies, we are now set up on PayPal to take your major credit cards and PayPal payments
directly. You DO NOT have to have a PayPal account to use your credit
cards
to make payments on this site.
We also now have the capability to take in your donations via PayPal as well.
Please contribute to help out the Spectre Association today!. You can even
click here to make a direct donation
to the association!
Cannon-aide: The Air Force signed the movement directive May 12 that formally authorizes the relocation of the 16th Special Operations Squadron and its eight AC130Hgunships from Hurlburt Field, Fla., to Cannon AFB, N.M, Air Force Special Operations Command announced May 15. The 16th SOS, formerly a part of Hurlburt's 1st Special Operations Wing, will transfer to the 27th SOW at Cannon, AFSOC's western hub since October 2007. The command anticipates the move of the gunships and associated aircrews and support personnel to be complete by November 2009, with an initial cadre moving this summer and the majority of the squadron in April 2009, AFSOC said. The transfer will involve approximately 600 positions. Members of the New Mexico Congressional delegation welcomed the news--which they got wind of prior to the public announcement--in a joint statement May 14.
I
was on the af.mil site and found a NEW 16 SOS Patch. I uploaded it to the Photos, Patches area of
the Yahoo group. Can anyone in the 16th verify that
the new patch is now official? Please let me/us
know.
Here is the official description:
16th Special Operations Squadron
Emblem significance: Ultramarine blue and Air Force
yellow are the Air Force colors. Blue alludes to the
sky, the primary theater of Air Force operations.
Yellow refers to the sun and the excellence required
of Air Force personnel. The Spectre has been a
symbol of the 16th Special Operations Squadron and
the AC-130 gunship since inception in the late
1960's. The Spectre appearing at night in
a "covert" manner represents the unit's special
operations mission. It also represents the
unit's gunship nighttime mission, to attack quickly
and precisely and then vanish; much like the
phantoms of folklore do. The unit's motto "Spectre"
represents the nickname of the aircraft the squadron
has flown since the Vietnam War and the "Spectre"
symbol.
-PJ Click on the patch to open a larger
version.
-PJ Cook (Webmaster/Retired Spectre Lead Gunner)
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