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The craft brewery’s closure aligns with an increasing trend of similar taproom closures throughout Tampa Bay.
Republicans on Tuesday night swept the races for attorney general, chief financial officer and agriculture commissioner.
This iconic Florida critter appears to have swallowed an Xbox just a couple of weeks before the release of GTA 6.
Hurlburt Field is home to the Air Force Special Operations Command and the 1st Special Operations Wing. It began in World War II as Auxiliary Field No. 9, one of the small pilot and gunnery training fields built on the sprawling Eglin Field reservation. It is named for First Lieutenant Donald Wilson Hurlburt, born in 1919 in Watts Flats, New York, who flew bombers over Europe with the 303rd Bomb Group and earned the Distinguished Flying Cross. Assigned to Eglin in August 1943, he died on October 1 of that year of injuries suffered when the plane he was piloting crashed on takeoff. The name Hurlburt Field was made official on January 13, 1948.
After the war the field fell into disrepair. It came back to life in 1955, when the 17th Bombardment Wing arrived for training, and after a three-year stay the wing was replaced by the 4751st Missile Wing, which tested Bomarc surface-to-air missiles launched from neighboring Santa Rosa Island. On April 14, 1961, the Air Force activated the 4400th Combat Crew Training Squadron here, nicknamed "Jungle Jim," reviving the World War II air commandos to train for counterinsurgency. It grew into the 1st Air Commando Wing in 1963 and became the 1st Special Operations Wing in 1968, flying propeller aircraft and AC-130 gunships in the Vietnam War. Hurlburt's units went on to serve in Grenada in 1983, Panama in 1989 and the Gulf War in 1991. Headquarters for the 23rd Air Force moved here in 1987, and on May 22, 1990, it was redesignated the Air Force Special Operations Command, making Hurlburt Field the home of a major Air Force command. Sources Hurlburt Field: Hurlburt Field History (fact sheet) Hurlburt Field: Hurlburt Field's Namesake (fact sheet) Wikipedia: Hurlburt Field
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