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  • Coming Feb. 22, single 800 number for all Airmen

    Members of the Total Force - regular Air Force, Air National Guard, Air Force Reserve, civilian and retired Airmen - are on line to have one central phone number for help with their personnel questions starting at 5 p.m. Central Standard Time Feb. 22. Members of the Air Force community should call

  • Pilot at Eglin selected for F-35 cadre

    Maj. Lee Kloos was elated when he heard he was selected for the initial cadre of F-35 Lightning II instructors. A Weapons School graduate and fighter pilot with nearly 2,000 flying hours, Major Kloos, a lieutenant colonel select, will be the 58th Fighter Squadron director of operations once the 33rd

  • Air Armament Academy instructors recognized for dedication

    Sharpening the edge of the sword with education is the reason four instructors from the Air Armament Academy have been singled out. Emily Jay, Maj. Phillip Bascom, Jill Barfield and Greg Hutto, instructors for the four colleges in the A3, were singled out for their contributions to professional

  • Eglin to search for vintage munitions in Santa Rosa County

    Eglin Environmental Restoration officials and contractors are preparing to conduct visual surface surveys on private property in Santa Rosa County under the Air Force's Military Munitions Response Program. The mission of the AF MMRP is to take appropriate actions to ensure former weapon test ranges

  • Air Force signs Record of Decision on bed down of JSF at Eglin

    The Air Force has decided to beddown 59 F-35 aircraft and to allow associated construction to begin implementing a Base Realignment and Closure 2005 decision. The decision also imposes temporary operational limitations on JSF flight training activities to both avoid and minimize noise impacts. This

  • Team Eglin expands grounds to Reserve counterpart

    The 919th Special Operations Wing moved its flight operations from Duke Field to Eglin's runway this week to accommodate construction occurring on their runway. "Duke's entire runway will be milled and replaced with new asphalt," said Timothy Kimsey, 46th Operations Support Squadron airfield manager

  • Show Support: Help make basketball tourney special

    Athletes from the Florida Special Olympics will gather at Eglin Feb. 6 and 7 for the 2009 Northwest Sectional basketball tournament. The guest speaker for the basketball tournament is Northwest Florida State College Women's Basketball coach Bart Walker. Tournaments will be held at the Eglin Main Gym

  • Airman support the Presidential Inauguration

    This is the third story in a series about Eglin Airmen who supported the inauguration.Two Airmen from the 96th Logistics Readiness Squadron had unique experiences recently in support of the Presidential Inauguration. Senior Airmen LaRose Bacani and Angela Espiritu are two supply troops who work

  • Eglin takes threat of aircraft, bird collisions seriously

    The world of aviation has long known that bird strikes on aircraft are common, costly and deadly. But when a flock of Canada geese recently brought down an airliner larger than an NBA basketball court, the rest of the world became aware, too. "It was an unfortunate thing that happened in New York,"