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  • Range police officer wins AF award

    After setting aside her Air Force blues and security forces beret, Janine Hank crossed into police officer blue in 2007.  Eight years later, she's wearing and protecting the blue and recently named the Air Force's Security Forces civilian of the Year.Officer Hank was notified on her selection in the

  • Operation Cold Pizza delivers hot take-out, on time

    Operation Cold Pizza aims for anything but.Eglin Defenders streamlined how take-out is delivered on base through a new sponsorship process making food deliveries timely and hassle-free."We have new procedures to allow certain fast food delivery vendors to apply for security forces sponsorship," said

  • 4th quarter status of discipline

    The following disciplinary actions occurred here between October and December 2015.A senior airman from the16th Electronic Warfare Squadron received a suspended reduction in rank to airman 1st class for driving under the influence of alcohol.An airman 1st class from the 96th Communications Squadron

  • Seven Airmen selected for "below-the-zone"

    At 4 a.m., Airman 1st Class Vincent Doherty had just woken up to start another workday at his deployed location.  He noticed he had a message from an unknown phone number.  He found out quickly it was from his home-unit squadron commander, Lt. Col. Matthew Imperial, the 96th Communications

  • Memorial held for Eglin's fallen Airman

    Just four days after the death of Maj. Adrianna Vorderbruggen, her squadron commander took her special agent badge to the beach to take some photos.  Lt. Col. Pamela Alley was capturing some shots of water rolling over Badge 1502, when a large wave broke and swept it out into the Gulf.  Alley said

  • Nomad's legacy in Desert Storm

    The Nomads have a heritage of air dominance, none more notable than their actions in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm where they secured the first aerial victories of the Gulf War.In August 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait to annex the country's rich oil reserves, President George H. W. Bush

  • Eglin honors MLK Day as day of service

    The annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. observance ceremony was held at the Air Armament Museum Jan. 14.  The message for this year's event focused on service to community and building unity within the nation.Lt. Col. Sherrol James, 96th Medical Group chaplain, the guest speaker, delivered her

  • Local memorial set for Eglin's fallen Airman

    The Air Force Office of Special Investigations 9th Field Investigations Squadron invites base personnel to a memorial in honor of Special Agent (Maj.) Adrianna M. Vorderbruggen Jan. 21, at 1 p.m.The service is at the Soundside Club main ballroom, 107 Kissam St., Bldg. 90910 at Hurlburt Field.  It is

  • Test teams aim at new machine gun for Pave Hawk

    Arriving in the rain, an HH-60G Pave Hawk landed here Jan. 5 to begin testing the ballistic dispersion of a GAU-21 .50-caliber machine gun.The Pave Hawk will be here until Jan. 22 where the 412th Test Wing and 418th Flight Test Squadron are providing the facilities, range safety, photographic

  • DOD identifies Air Force casualties

    The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of six airmen who were supporting Operation Freedom's Sentinel.  They died Dec. 21 of wounds suffered when their patrol was attacked by a suicide bomber on a motorcycle near Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan.Killed were:Maj. Adrianna M.