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  • Bill renaming two Post Offices in PA for Fallen Heroes passes U.S. Senate

    Legislation that would rename two U.S. Post Office facilities in the Commonwealth after Pennsylvanians who were killed in action while serving their country is one signature away from becoming law. Senators Pat Toomey and Bob Casey announced March 8, 2018, that the legislation has passed the U.S.

  • OSI selects 16th Command Chief

    When she enlisted in the Air Force in 1993 her modest goals were to provide for her family and finish her education. Twenty five years later she finds herself in the prestigious position of 16th Command Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. By her own admission,

  • OSI salutes 15th Command Chief upon retirement

    A true stalwart in the Air Force Office of Special Investigations family will soon hang up his blue suit and badge for the last time. Chief Master Sgt. Christopher J. VanBurger, the 15th Command Chief in the storied 69-year history of OSI, bid an emotional farewell during his official retirement

  • Brazilian liaison event fosters friendly engagement

    Air Force Office of Special Investigations Force Protection Detachment Brazil Special Agent Gary McKay, traveled to Las Vegas, Nev., Jan. 23, 2018, with 11 Brazilian counterparts, representing eight Brazilian civilian and military law enforcement organizations, to attend the Shooting, Hunting and

  • Region 5 combats terrorism in Western Europe (Part 2)

    Faced with the likelihood the next terror attack could be anytime and anywhere in Europe, Special Agent In Charge of Detachmnent 540, Brian Tweed, thought OSI should do more to unite and enable German police forces via the strategic engagement mission of the Seat of Government and give German police

  • 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.