This story appeared in Radio World in February 2002. Given interest in the Commando Solo operation in Haiti in 2010, we’ve reposted it. In the months following Sept. 11, it was hard to turn on a TV or ...

WASHINGTON -- "Commando Solo" is cruising the Balkan skies, battling day and night for the hearts and minds of Yugoslav Serbs, conducting psychological warfare from 20,000 feet. The specially ...

Forget bombs and missiles, special aircraft based in central Pennsylvania have been dispatched overseas to conduct an entirely different sort of air war. Called Commando Solo, the planes can interrupt ...

At the IEEE on Wednesday, Lt. Col. Douglas Williams of the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command, discussed the government’s aerial radio and television broadcasting from an EC-130J transport ...

Welcome to the other war. In a dingy brick building at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, a printing press last week churned out what amounts to 2 million holiday greeting cards: reams of flimsy leaflets that ...

WASHINGTON — Meet Commando Solo, a souped-up U.S. military cargo plane beaming regional tunes and American commentary over Afghanistan, the latest weapon in the White House’s campaign for the hearts ...

“Commando Solo, music off.” The EC-130J used for PSYOPS retires. The EC-130J is a particular version of the EC-130 aircraft flying with the Pennsylvania Air National Guard and used for PSYchological ...

High above Afghanistan, flying broadcast centers are reinforcing bombing runs and missile strikes with information assaults. These C-130E Commando Solo planes, airing pro-American radio and television ...

Commando Solo, the military's only airborne radio and television broadcast mission, is going digital, members of the Air National Guard's 193rd Special Operations Wing told The DAILY Jan. 10. Based in ...

The Pennsylvania Air National Guard's 193rd Special Operations Wing flies the C-130J Super Hercules, a cargo craft big enough to carry three Humvees. The belly of one of the unit's planes, the ...

DOHA, Qatar — When 17 Iraqi soldiers crossed the Kuwaiti border and surrendered Wednesday, it was hardly a mass defection. But U.S. military commanders hope it’s the start of an exodus inspired by the ...