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  • Air Force officials announce criteria for basing of joint strike fighter

    After extensive internal review, Air Force officials released Sept. 17 their basing criteria that will be used to determine the future basing of joint strike fighters. The basing criteria were approved by the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the Air Force. The basing criteria are airspace, flight

  • Ceremony set to transition SFW

    Plans are set to celebrate the success of a workhorse weapon in the Air Force arsenal. Government workers and contractors will come together Sept. 24 at the Air Armament Museum to commemorate the transition of the Sensor Fuzed Weapon from the program office here at Eglin AFB to the Ogden Air

  • 'Reach Out! Raise Hope!' theme to 2009 Combined Federal Campaign

    There are more than 470 families in the Fort Walton Beach area without a place to live. Many of them live in cars and wash in public restrooms. Maybe it's someone from church or the cashier working at the local grocery store. No matter who it is, help is needed. Circumstances like these are examples

  • 96th Air Base Wing history spans six decades

    From operational testing to strategic bombing, the 96th Air Base Wing has contributed greatly to our defense of freedom according to Clay McCutchan, historian for the Air Armament Center. The 96th stood up in the midst of World War II. In 1942, it was established as an operational training unit for

  • EOD instructors receive Bronze Stars

    Four explosive ordnance disposal technicians from the 366th Training Squadron, Detachment 3 received Bronze Stars during a ceremony Sept. 2 in front of the EOD Memorial at the Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal School. Family members, instructors, commanders and students joined together in recognizing

  • JFIIT helps Army, AF train with Italian Air Force

    Joint fires experts from U.S. Joint Forces Command assisted Italian Air Force personnel in integrating operations with U.S. Army and Air Force assets during a recent two-week exercise at the National Training Center here. The exercise marked the first time that Italian warfighters have participated

  • Colonel-selects donate funds to Fisher House

    The time-honored tradition of celebrating promotion with a party was rewritten by five lieutenant colonels ready to pin on new rank. When Lt. Cols. Donald Finley, Gregory McNew, Mel Petersen, Charles Greenwald, and Doug Hagen were notified of their selection to colonel, they collectively decided to

  • Nomad 1 to check out, wing is ready for transition

    Since January 2008, Col. Todd Harmer has led the 33rd Fighter Wing Nomads, continuing the unit's legacy to the end of its 30-year era of flying the F-15 Eagle as an operational combat wing. The colonel flies the wing's last F-15 to its final destination in Tucson, Ariz., Sept. 8, marking his final

  • Eglin gears up for 2010 AF fitness program

    Eglin's military are buzzing about the new Air Force Fitness Plan rumored to be more challenging, harder to pass and only four months away. Although Air Force Instruction for the new fitness program has not been officially released, Eglin and military Air Force-wide are preparing for the new

  • 72nd TES evaluates mission capabilities

    The 72nd Test and Evaluation Squadron here took part in Combat Sledgehammer Aug. 17 as part of Air Combat Command's nuclear weapon system evaluation program. The 72nd TES is a tenant unit stationed at Whiteman. Their chain-of-command runs through the 53rd Test and Evaluation Group at Nellis AFB,