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  • PACAF Airman of the Year returns to Hawaii as OSI Wing Commander

    Long before he was the Office of Special Investigations Wing Commander for the Pacific Region, he was a high school student in the Civil Air Patrol, learning what it meant to be part of an organization that is committed to serving America’s communities. There he won the Billy Mitchell Award which

  • Virtual meetings fortify OSI, Brazil partnership

    Due to Hurricane Ida’s impact on New Orleans, La., previously scheduled events in September 2021, were cancelled, including the annual International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference, while others were postponed. However, Col. Tara Lunardi, OSI Field Investigations Region 2 Commander,

  • SAs adopt Road Warrior mindset for MAJCOM exercise

    Of all the mission skillsets Office of Special Investigations special agents possess, arguably one of the most unique, is providing security for nuclear convoy teams. Nuclear Convoy Support Agents from OSI Field Investigations Region 8 showcased their specialized mettle during the Air Force Global

  • OSI ‘surge’ pivotal to historic Afghan evacuation mission

    In the span of 24 hours, Ramstein Air Base, Germany and Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, transformed into the United States two primary evacuation hubs for Operation Allies Refuge, supporting the most expansive humanitarian airlift in the history of the United States. The Office of Special Investigations

  • Chance encounter saves veteran on Austin bridge

    The last thing Office of Special Investigations special agents from the polygraph program expected to find while on a lunch break was someone contemplating suicide. But, that was the reality facing the group, as they were walking across the Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge in Austin, Texas,

  • Caring for the victim speaks volumes in case closure

    A North Carolina man was sentenced Aug. 4, 2021, to 420 months, or 35 years, in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release for enticing and sexually abusing a minor. The severity of the sentence, and the egregious nature of the offenses, belies the caring treatment employed by Office of

  • Integrated defense: FHP, 325th SFS and OSI

    Tyndall Air Force Base occupies approximately 29,000 acres between the DuPont Bridge and Mexico Beach, Florida. Eighteen miles of public highway divides the base thus concurrent jurisdiction is shared with state law enforcement agencies.Florida Highway Patrol and Bay County Sheriff’s office are only

  • Classified information leak to media results in 45 month prison sentence

    Daniel Everette Hale, 33, of Nashville, Tenn., was sentenced July 27, 2021, to 45 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally obtaining classified national defense information and disclosing it to a reporter. Hale admitted meeting with the reporter in person

  • Multiple punishments for a multiple offender

    An eight month investigation into the illegal activities of a Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., senior noncommissioned officer, culminated in the offender being sentenced to 32 months in federal prison. Air Force Master Sgt. Michael Reimers, 41, assigned to the 99th Communications Squadron at Nellis, was

  • OSI has a blast training with EOD

    The Office of Special Investigations (OSI) Detachment 623 and the 35th Security Forces Squadron (SFS) teamed up with 35th Civil Engineering Squadron (CES) Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) to simulate an investigation of an explosive ordnance at Misawa Air Base, Japan, July 8, 2021.