In honor of 9/11

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- In honor of the 7th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, an honor guard reveille detail lowers the flag in front of the Air Armament Center to half staff. The ceremony was accompanied by a prayer and the playing of Taps. (US Air Force photo/ Airman 1st Class Anthony Jennings)

In honor of 9/11

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- In honor of the 7th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, an honor guard reveille detail lowers the flag in front of the Air Armament Center to half staff. The ceremony was accompanied by a prayer and the playing of taps. (US Air Force photo/ Airman 1st Class Anthony Jennings)

American flag woven with tradtion

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- A flag detail meticulously folds the American flag 13 times during a retreat ceremony. Each fold in the flag symbolizes an American value and heritage. (US Air Force Photo/ Airman 1st Class Anthony Jennings)

American flag woven with tradtion

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- A flag detail meticulously folds the American flag 13 times during a retreat ceremony. Each fold in the flag symbolizes an American value and heritage. (US Air Force Photo/ Airman 1st Class Anthony Jennings)

Eglin Team seeking fitness and health

Chelsea Dollar (l) Kacie Bratton (r) were the two top individual winners of the lean challenge at the Child Development Center. A group of 34 employees with the CDC participated.

Eglin celebrates Women?s Equality Day

Women suffragettes picketed the White House in 1917 to get the attention of President Woodrow Wilson and his support for a Suffrage Amendment.

Airman looking for a few good wingmen

Staff Sgt. Justin Morrison, a dog handler with the 96th Security Forces, is waiting for his wife, Jenny, to find a donor for a double lung transplant at the University of Alabama Medical Center in Birmingham. (courtesy photo)

Bold Quest Plus

Bold Quest Plus, the Coalition combat Identification (CCID) Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD), will exercise a variety of technologies like the Air Support Operations Center (ASOC) Gateway pictured here in HMMWV at Eglin. (Photo: Casey Bain, JFIIT)

Navy, Air Force and Army kick-off joint excercise

An Army Air Defense Artillery Patriot missile launcher from 2-1 ADA protects the NAS-Fallon airfield as a Navy F/A-18 Hornet from CVW-8 patrols above during AWF ITE. (Photo by: Casey Bain, Joint Fires Intergration and Interoperability Team)

Commissary awards scholarships to local students

Commissary manager Luana Harris congratulates Rhapsody Bogart for being a recipient of a $1,500 scholarship in the Scholarships for Military Children Program.

Marsville

Staff Sgt. Eugenia Ramirez, Air Traffic Controller, 46th Operation Support Squadron, helps a student tape down an artificial habitat, much like the ones that could sustain life on Mars. Marsville is a collaborative effort between Eglin and surrounding elementary schools that gives students the opportunity to explore the possibilities of life on Mars.

Marsville

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE -- Fifth graders from Valparaiso Elementary School along with a concerned mother hustle to complete an artificial habitat, much like ones that would sustain life on Mars. Marsville is a collaborative effort between Eglin Air Force Base and the surrounding elementary school's fifth graders that provides students to explore the possibilities of inhabiting Mars.