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  • Eglin send security forces Airmen to Iraq in style

    A wall of red shirts makes its way through a crowd of 97 Airmen preparing to board an aircraft and make the journey over the Atlantic Ocean bound for the Middle East. The Red Shirt Brigade, a group of volunteers from the Army and Air Force Exchange Service and members of the Fort Walton Beach

  • Base legal office offers advice about wills, divorce, evidence

    Most legal problems involve your former landlord, the guy who backed into your car or the car dealer that sold you a lemon at a 28 percent annual percentage rate. Before seeing an attorney, take this advice: collect as much evidence as you can about your dispute. The most important part of any legal

  • 59th TES wins international award

    If lions are kings of their domain, then the 59th Test and Evaluation Squadron "Lions" are kings of test and evaluation. The 59th TES Lions, at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., won the prestigious 2008 International Test and Evaluation Association Special Achievement Award for extraordinary achievement

  • The Inspector General available for complaints, self-inspections

    Ensuring compliance with standards, policies, programs or instructions, or discovering the possibility of fraud, waste and abuse are just some of the activities that keep the Inspector General's office viable. The Inspector General, Col. Bradley Denison, and his staff of two investigative officers,

  • Nomads prove readiness during week-long exercise

    This week's Operation Noble Eagle exercise proves Nomads of the 33rd Fighter Wing are ready and able to respond, with a sense of urgency, anytime and anywhere to support in our nation's defense. "F-15s will be on alert, ready to scramble and launch against air threats to a simulated no fly zone that

  • Low-speed vehicles save Air Force money

    In these difficult financial times and with budget restraints all across the Air Force, low speed vehicles are a major step the Air Force is taking to drastically reduce vehicle procurement, maintenance and fuel costs. One of the defining characteristics of an LSV is that it must not be able to

  • AFRL scientist tapped for AMBA program

    A scientist from the Air Force Research Laboratory Munitions Directorate was recently named one of three Air Force Materiel Command selectees in the 2009 Air Force University of Tennessee Aerospace Masters in Business Administration program. The AMBA program combines textbook learning with

  • Eglin officials give community leaders JSF sound bytes

    Local community leaders were given an inside look into noise and its relation to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter during a recent breakfast with Team Eglin commanders and officials. Richard McKinley, the Joint Strike Fighter program office's principle acoustic engineer from Wright-Patterson Air Force

  • Congress authorizes paternity leave

    Eligible Airmen are now authorized 10 days of nonchargeable paternity leave following the birth of their newborns, courtesy of the 2009 Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act passed by Congress. The law applies to married, active-duty Airmen. The Airman's wife must have given birth to the

  • Eglin's joint fires team helps

    U.S. Joint Forces Command's joint fires experts from Eglin are assisting Army brigade combat teams on how military services can work together to improve air-ground integration training as they prepare for upcoming deployments to Afghanistan or Iraq. The Operations Group at the Joint Readiness