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Cannon Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base, located approximately 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Clovis, New Mexico. The host unit at Cannon is the 27th Special Operations Wing (27 SOW) also known as "The Steadfast Line". [ 2 ]
Suicide in the military is the act of ending one's life during or after a career in the armed forces. US army suicide prevention poster, 2012. While suicide rates in military organizations vary internationally, official statistics in several countries show a consistently higher risk in certain subgroups.
United States military veteran suicide [1] [2] is an ongoing phenomenon regarding the high rate of suicide among U.S. military veterans in comparison to the general civilian public. [3] A focus on preventing veteran suicide began in 1958 with the opening of the first suicide prevention center in the United States.
The rate at which troops were hospitalized for mental illnesses has risen 87 percent since 2000, according to a July 2013 study by the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center. The center also reported in June of last year that mental complaints, not physical injury, were the leading cause of medical evacuations from the battlefields of Iraq and ...
Nov. 25—Cannon Air Force Base security forces were conducting "increased patrols" late Tuesday afternoon when an individual reported hearing gunfire. The gunfire report led to the evening's ...
A United States Air Force Boeing E-3C Sentry, 83-0008, while returning from the Red Flag Exercise 09–5 with the 552d Air Control Wing from Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, made a forced landing at Nellis Air Force Base. Due to a fire the aircraft was damaged and the crew of 32 were safely evacuated and the fire extinguished by Nellis AFB ...
The 832nd Air Division was activated at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico and assigned to Eighteenth Air Force in October 1957, when the 474th Fighter-Bomber Wing was activated as Tactical Air Command (TAC)'s second fighter-bomber wing there. The 474th joined the 312th Fighter-Bomber Wing, which had been at Cannon since 1954.
U.S. Airmen render a salute for the posting of the colors during the 27th Special Operations Wing's change of command ceremony at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico, 2 June 2017. On 1 November 1991, the 27 TFW was re-designated the 27th Fighter Wing as part of an Air Force-wide reorganization.