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  • Small energy surveys lead to big energy savings at Eglin

    October is Energy Awareness month and Team Eglin facility managers are leading the effort to increase energy awareness on base. Earlier this month, Master Sgt. Myeshia Lee, 96th Air Base Wing staff, assisted representatives from the 96th Civil Engineer Group's Energy Management Center and Gulf Power

  • Eglin salutes the Year of the Air Force Family

    Supervisors, co-workers and friends come and go, but family is forever. In the coming months, Eglin will focus on the meaning, needs and strengths of the Air Force family during what's being called service wide, Year of the Air Force Family. YoAFF began in July and lasts to July 2010. At this time,

  • Joint warfighters hone close air support skills at JRTC

    Army special forces and joint fires observers trained with Air Force joint terminal attack controllers and Navy fighter aircrews during a recent two-week Joint Readiness Training Center and Air Force Green Flag East exercise here with assistance from U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Fires

  • Deployed chief reenlists for last time

    Chief Master Sgt. Veronique Nicklas, 379th Expeditionary Medical Group superintendent, reenlisted Sept. 26 for the final time before reaching 30 years in the U.S. Air Force. The reenlistment ceremony took place on the flightline here in Southwest Asia. "It was an honor and a privilege," Chief

  • SFS keeps Eglin safe in variety of ways

    Patrolling 724 square miles of Eglin reservation can seem like quite a task. Nevertheless, the 96th Security Forces Squadron, with their more than 500 members and 60 vehicles, does just that. With Eglin's unique missions and landscape, security forces responsibilities are equally unique and

  • Eglin's 33rd Fighter Wing transitions to first F-35 training unit

    The 33rd Fighter Wing transitioned from an operational F-15 unit to the first F-35 "Lightning II" Joint Strike Fighter training unit during a ceremony Oct. 1 at 9:33 a.m., here. Col. David Hlatky assumed command of Air Education and Training Command's newest wing whose mission is to safely and

  • Contracting, finance, civil engineer team closes out FY09

    At the end of fiscal year 2009, Eglin's contracting squadron executed approximately $185 million of the base budget. They know well what it is like to run a fast-pace race with high quality on limited resources. "The last 45 days are high speed but it is really an all year task supporting all of

  • Commander predicts success implementing world's first F-35 wing

    Training the first generation of F- 35 Joint Strike Fighter pilots and maintainers for the next phase of air dominance brings the "privilege of a lifetime" for the new 33rd Fighter Wing commander. "I'm eager and excited by the challenge of being a part of the next 35 to 50 years of air dominance,"

  • Ceremony honors America's heroes

    Eglin honored prisoners of war and those missing in action during its annual POW/MIA ceremony Sept. 18 at the Air Armament Museum. "Today we mourn the POWs and MIAs we have lost; those who have made the ultimate sacrifice," said Maj. Gen. C. R. Davis, Air Armament Center commander and guest speaker.

  • Sixth OIF deployment complete, 728th home for now

    More than 150 members of 728th Air Control Squadron, an associate unit here, returned from Southwest Asia Sept. 21, after supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom since May. "They provided persistent command and control to the joint service there, a 24/7 job," said Col. Scott Fischer, commander of the