Cannon airmen share mission with students

17th Training Wing Public Affairs

GOODFELLOW AIR FORCE BASE, Texas — A CV-22 Osprey from Cannon Air Force Base landed Dec. 8 to provide intelligence students with an orientation on special operations missions and aircraft they may support after graduation.

The CV-22 is a tilt rotor aircraft that resembles the takeoff and landing qualities of a helicopter with the fuel efficiency and speed of a turboprop aircraft. Its mission is to conduct long-range infiltration, exfiltration and resupply missions for special operations forces.

Some of Cannon’s 27th Special Operations Wing operational intelligence airmen flew in on the CV-22.

“We have brought some young intelligence professionals who are out in the field who graduated from Goodfellow,” said Col. Mike Meyer, Air Force Special Operations Command intelligence director. “They are here to provide orientation on AFSOC to the intelligence students going through courses right now.”

Airman 1st Class Kathryn Radcliff, 56th Special Operations Intelligence Squadron intelligence analyst, came to give insight to the students.

“I think it is very important to get them excited about this job because it is so entirely unique,” she said. “It is good to give them that explanation as to what exactly they would be doing at this job site so that they know what they could have the possibility and the opportunity to do.”

Airman Jarrian Robinson, 316th Training Squadron student, shared his thoughts on the visit.

“Overall, I think this has been a very enlightening experience,” he said. “This is my first time actually being on an (aircraft) like this, and it has been very eye-opening for me to see how it looks on the inside compared to just an outside look of model planes.”

After educating Goodfellow students, Cannon members returned home on the Osprey to resume their primary mission.