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  • Remember those who gave their lives

    As we look ahead to a new year we inevitably think about the one that just passed. There's good and bad in those reflections and always hope and plans for a better year ahead.What we must not forget when we look at our lives is that nothing we enjoy is possible without liberty and freedom. It allows

  • 'A true American hero'

    A river of emotion flowed through Georgia Southern University's Hanner Fieldhouse Saturday as one of Statesboro's own hometown heroes, Special Agent Staff Sgt. Chester JaMicheal McBride III, was lain to rest.McBride, a Statesboro native and 2003 graduate of Statesboro High, was killed Dec. 21 along

  • AFOSI Commander Attends Dignified Transfer of OSI Fallen Heroes

    On Dec. 23, Brig. Gen. Keith M. Givens, Air Force Office of Special Investigations Commander attended the dignified transfer of four OSI Special Agents and two Air National Guard Security Forces members from the 105th Security Forces Squadron.In the morning, on Dec. 23, approximately 200 Air Force

  • OSI names two Honorary Special Agents

    The Air Force Office of Special Investigations Commander Brig. Gen. Keith M. Givens announced today that two Air National Guardsmen have been made Honorary Air Force Office of Special Investigations Special Agents.On Dec. 22, the Department of Defense announced the deaths of six Airmen who were

  • DoD Identifies Air Force Casualties

    The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of six Airmen who were supporting Operation Freedom's Sentinel. They died Dec. 21 of wounds sustained when their patrol was attacked by a suicide bomber on a motorcycle near Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.Among the six fatalities are four OSI

  • New weapons policy affords viable option

    Driven by real world needs, agents assigned to the Air Force Office of Special Investigations are now permitted to carry an approved privately owned weapon and ammunition on duty.The change brings OSI investigators in line with their counterparts at many federal, state and local law enforcement

  • Region 8 growth supports evolving space mission

    On October 1, 2015, OSI's Region 8 gained three new detachments at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., Dyess AFB, Texas, and Ellsworth AFB, S.D., as these installations transitioned to align under Air Force Global Strike Command. This growth, along with the recent gains of Det. 207 (Whiteman AFB, Mo.),

  • OSI stalwart reflects on Iran, career

    As Iranian nuclear deal discussions continue to make headlines, the contributing legacy of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations agents who earlier served in Iran cannot be understated.A permanent AFOSI footprint was activated in Tehran as a resident agency on July 1, 1966. It was

  • Civil settlement reached over testing procedure claims

    An environmental testing company headquartered in Dayton, New Jersey, will pay $3 million to resolve allegations that it failed to follow proper EPA methodology during some of its tests, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman announced Dec. 3Accutest Corp., also known as Accutest Laboratories is an

  • Husband, wife given separate prison terms for three fraud schemes

    U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Shaun Tucker, aka "Shawn Turner," and "Mark Tyler," age 50, of Keymar, Md, to eight years in prison Nov. 20 followed by three years of supervised release in connection with defrauding the United States of more than $30 million in obtaining government