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Airmen at Cannon AFB, New Mexico, stood up the newly designated 27th Special Operations Wing during a unit re-designation and change of command ceremony on 1 October. As the 27th Fighter Wing, an Air Combat Command asset, inactivated, the 27th SOW stood up as the second of two active duty Special Operations wings in the Air Force. The first AFSOC aircraft to move to Cannon will be the 73rd Special Operations Squadron, which flies the MC-130W Combat Spear. The 73rd is currently located at Hurlburt Field, Florida. The MC-130W is used to conduct infiltration and exfiltration and to resupply Special Operations forces. It also provides refueling capability for vertical-lift assets, like the CV-22 Osprey.
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