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  • Region 5 combats terrorism in Western Europe (Part 1)

    On Dec. 19, 2016, radicalized Tunisian terrorist and common-street criminal Anis Amri mercilessly steered a stolen semi-truck filled with steel construction beams toward a Berlin Christmas market packed with men, women and children enjoying the holiday season in Germany’s capital city.

  • 25 EFIS conducts groundbreaking event in Niger

    Air Force Office of Special Investigations 25th Expeditionary Field Investigations Squadron conducted the first-ever Defense Threat Assessment Methodology Seminar engagements in Niger during December 2017.

  • U.S. charges Chinese hackers with commercial advantage

    A grand jury in the Western District of Pennsylvania indicted three Chinese hackers, who work for the purported China-based Internet security firm Guangzhou Bo Yu Information Technology Company Limited (a/k/a “Boyusec”), for computer hacking, theft of trade secrets, conspiracy and identity theft

  • AU salutes SA with dual awards

    Air Force Office of Special Investigations Special Agent Margarita Balish, who graduated from Naval Postgraduate School's National Security Affairs program in California Dec. 15, 2017, received two prestigious awards for the 2017 Fall Quarter, the Superior Service Award and the Air Force

  • AFOSI mentors youth through “Shop with a Cop”

    “One of the young girls told me, ‘You know when you dream that you have everything and you wake up and you have nothing? Well, this was the opposite of that,’” said Mary Midyette, Team Up mentoring supervisor after purchasing gifts during the “Shop with a Cop” event.

  • Fallen Special Agent honored at Travis AFB

    And Wieger did his job until Nov. 1, 2007, when, at age 28, he and two other Air Force Special Agents were killed by a roadside bomb near Balad, Iraq, for which Travis officials on Nov. 1, 2017, dedicated in Wieger’s honor the Special Investigations building on the sprawling base south of Vacaville,

  • Fraud team efforts result in millions repaid to AF

    Air Force Office of Special Investigations Procurement Fraud Detachment 2, Operating Location B, Buckley Air Force Base, Colo., initiated an investigation of potential false claims submitted on two Air Force contracts on July 9, 2015, resulting in $10,567,760 being voluntarily repaid to the Air

  • Hurlburt Field honors fallen OSI agent

    A dedication ceremony was held in honor of fallen U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations Special Agent (Maj.) Adrianna M. Vorderbruggen at Hurlburt Field, Fla., Oct. 13, 2017. A pavilion was erected at the Soundside in memoriam of Vorderbruggen and the impact she left on all who knew her

  • Eyes of the Eagle: Collect, Detect, Protect

    They collect information, detect problems with investigations and help protect against crimes by searching for the truth. When all is said and done, they pass everything along to the inspector general, wing commander and wing staff judge advocates to take appropriate actions against an alleged

  • Former OSI Commander joins ND as executive fellow

    Francis X. Taylor has been named an executive fellow of the Global Policy Initiative in the new Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. He is a distinguished graduate of the Notre Dame Air Force ROTC program and a former Commander of the Air Force Office of Special