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  • Emergency Services earns accreditation from global program

    Eglin Fire Emergency Services recently received "Accredited Agency" status with the Commission on Fire Accreditation International for meeting the criteria established through the organization's voluntary self-assessment and accreditation program."Achieving CFAI Accredited Agency Status is a lengthy

  • Team Eglin ensures wounded warriors welcome on base

    The introductory adaptive and rehabilitation camp and Warrior Games training held here April 13-22 required preparation, coordination and cooperation from several base agencies to insure both events' success.    The 96th Test Wing was contacted in December 2014 with support requests to host the

  • Caregivers mirror wounded warrior struggles

    Megan Fugitt was enjoying life as a newly-wed when in an instant, she went from being a wife to a caregiver.Fugitt's husband, Chris, a former Airman with the 96th Maintenance Squadron here, was on the mend of a kidney renal infarction in 2013 when he suddenly suffered a stroke as a result of blood

  • Career-ending injury leads Airman to new calling

    When a career-ending injury halted then-Staff Sgt. Daniel Crane's promising military career, he almost gave in to the anger and depression that threatened to overtake him.In 2012, Crane, assigned to the 736th Security Forces Squadron in Guam, had just completed a three-day security mission.  The

  • Wounded Warrior training camp begins

    The Air Force Warrior Games training camp began here today following the adaptive sports and rehabilitation camp last week. More than 40 athletes arrived Friday to participate in the training camp.  Three Wounded Warriors moved on from the adaptive camp to the training camp."We saw a week of healing

  • Eglin Airman participates in adaptive camp

    Like the aircraft he used to load and test bombs on before circumstances abruptly ended his career, a retired 96th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron Airman is a fighter.Two years after complications from a massive stroke forced Senior Airman Chris Fugitt to retire from the Air Force, his warrior spirit

  • An Airman's journey to Wounded Warrior mentorship

    Tech. Sgt. Ryan Delaney couldn't be happier to be a mentor for the introductory adaptive sports and rehabilitation camp that happened this week here.Delaney, a flight chief with the 412th Security Forces Squadron at Edwards AFB, Calif., helped prepare approximately 45 participants in the camp and

  • Nomads hold first F-35A weapons load competition

    The 33rd Fighter Wing held its first weapons load competition here, April 3, since the 2009 draw down of the F-15C Eagle mission, to determine the best F-35A Lightning II weapons load crew.Earning the title of the best load crew in the 33rd FW was Staff Sgt. Timothy Gaulden, crew six load crew chief

  • Eglin Airmen make Tops in Blue team

    Two Eglin Airmen started training for Tops In Blue, the Air Force's amateur talent showcase at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, March 23.Airman 1st Class Christine M. David, an administration journeyman and Senior Airman Christopher Hayes, a load crew member, both with the 96th Aircraft

  • Reaper deploys live weapons on maritime training target

    An MQ-9 Reaper successfully hit a sea-going target with an AGM-114 Hellfire missile during a joint service training exercise over the Eglin water range here, March 17.This was the first time a remotely piloted aircraft hit a maritime target."It was the first time we put live weapons into boats and