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A 353rd Special Operations Wing Air Commando awaits an incoming cross-country high frequency communications call on an AN/PRC-167 radio during an Air Force Special Operations Command tactical communicator course hosted by the 137th SOW at John W. Nichols Scout Ranch, Oklahoma City, March 31, 2026. With each iteration of the course, AFSOC adapts and shapes expeditionary communications Air Commandos assigned to wings across the globe for mission success within special operations. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Erika Chapa)

137th SOW hosts tactical communicators in AFSOC course
An Airman assigned to the 137th Special Operations Wing, Oklahoma Air National Guard, performs situps for the U.S. Air Force Physical Fitness Assessment.

137th SOW prepares for upcoming fitness changes
Uniformed members greet each other as some walk off an aircraft on a flightline.

Oklahoma and Minnesota Airmen sharpen joint readiness during Exercise Thunderwolf
Medical supplies used by the 137th Special Operations Wing during exercise Sentry South 26-2 sits on a table at Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center, Mississippi, March 2, 2026. Sentry South 26-2 is a large force employment exercise focused on major combat operations and joint maritime opportunities in a contested or degraded operational environment. Sentry South 26-2 is a large force employment exercise focused on major combat operations and joint maritime opportunities in a contested or degraded operational environment. Sentry South 26-2 applies joint and combined warfighting doctrine against realistic and robust enemy integrated threat systems, all while under safe and controlled conditions. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Nicholas Swift)

137th SOW Conducts emergency medical care exercise at Sentry South 26-2
A military aircraft sits on the flightline.

OA-1K Skyraider II Oklahoma sunrise flightline photos
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"The 137th Special Operations Wing is a force provider organized, trained and equipped to support combatant commanders across the spectrum of conflict projecting airpower anytime, anywhere."

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