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  • Parenting classes offer simple child-raising tools

    Two classes offered at the Enlisted Hall here Nov. 16 gave parents tools to help raise both young children and adolescents. In addition to military and civilian parents from Eglin, several teachers and counselors from Eglin's partnership schools in Okaloosa County attended the sessions. Parents and

  • School children, parents and community honor veterans

    A visible sight of military might roared over the Eglin All Wars Memorial and banked left. As the F-15 noise subsided, a group of children's singing voices took precedence, "what can you say about our heroes? We say thank you, thank you, thank you..."Some 450 Eglin Elementary children and others

  • Airmen, Sailors team up to create joint honor guard

    "Colors, ready, cut," echoed in the 77,000 square foot expanse housing the F-35 Lightning II, followed by a "forward harch." The calls and marching came from Airmen and Sailors executing their first official ceremony as a color guard. After a month of training twice a week, the joint group

  • New chiefs announced

    Air Force officials selected 487 of 2,201 eligible senior master sergeants for promotion to chief master sergeant for a selection rate of 22.13 percent.The average score for those selected was 659.88, with an average time in grade of 3.09 years and time in service of 22.85 years respectively. The

  • Old meds dumped during Drug Take Back Day

    More than125 military beneficiaries brought their expired, unused and unwanted prescription drugs to the satellite pharmacy parking lot for destruction during the base's National Drug Take Back Day Oct. 29.The joint effort between the pharmacy, security forces and the drug enforcement agency reaped

  • Dyess bombers succeed during Combat Hammer

    The 9th Bomb Squadron successfully dropped Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles Oct. 25 during a Combat Hammer weapons system evaluation at White Sands Missile Range, N.M.The goal of the exercise, managed by the 86th Fighter Weapons Squadron at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is to evaluate the

  • ORI results good news for wing

    An undercurrent of excitement ran through a packed house at Eglin's Heritage Hall as more than 600 Airmen, civic leaders and supporters of the 96th Air Base Wing waited for the results of its Operational Readiness Inspection.The ORI, led by 52 inspectors from Air Force Material Command, was the

  • B-1 aircrews drop the hammer during exercise

    Aircrews from the 37th Bomb Squadron "Tigers" thundered into the White Sands Missile Range, N.M. Oct. 25 and employed two Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles from a pair of B-1 bombers as part of the Air Force's air to ground Weapon System Evaluation Program known as Combat Hammer.The goal of the

  • FBI hosts blast investigation training at Eglin

    Improvised explosive devices ripped through three vehicles, sending debris up and out as far as 1,500 feet, creating a sprawling scene of devastation across Eglin's ranges Sept. 27.The explosions initiated the FBI's Large Vehicle Bomb Post Blast School for approximately 53 state and local law

  • Pharmacist answers call to serve

    In 2001, David Welch was a retail pharmacist. He had a six-figure salary, a new Jeep Wrangler 4X4, and a big house in the coastal town of Beaufort, N.C. Along with a wife and young daughter, he had everything a man could want. He still felt something was missing.Then his country was attacked and