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  • Eglin’s own comes home for air show

    Major David Lemery is in his second season with the U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, The Thunderbirds, as #11, the team's Maintenance Officer. Prior to joining the premier team, the major was stationed here for three years.The University of Texas at San Antonio graduate spent his 11-year

  • Eglin Airman supports force protection, security efforts

    Senior Airman Ryan Quick is a security forces journeyman with the 380th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron at a non-disclosed location here.Airman Quick is deployed from the 96th Security Forces Squadron at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., and his hometown is Stone Ridge, N.Y. As a security forces

  • First JSF Marine squadron stands up at Eglin

    Military history was made when the first-ever Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II training squadron, Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 501, stood up here April 2.The significance of the occasion was it also marked the first time a Marine Corps squadron was embedded in an Air Force wing."And they

  • Eglin Airman saves children, dog from house fire

    "I kicked into mother mode and got hit with instincts," said the local hero who risked her life to save others in the face of a devastating fire in base housing.Senior Airman Ratchel Chapman, 728th Air Control Squadron knowledge operation manager, pulled two children and a family dog from a house

  • Kid vision: Tour gives youth inside look

    Nearly 20 children from the Taunton Family Children's Home toured the base to learn more about the service and experienced day-to-day Air Force operations March 29. "[The children] are on spring break, and I am sure they don't get a chance to put hands on aircraft every day," said Maj. Joseph

  • Aerial Port Airmen move personnel, cargo downrange

    The most important assets of any military operation are its people and equipment. Without them, success is unattainable. Enter the 386th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron's Aerial Port - a team whose mission is to move personnel and cargo in and out of the U.S. Central Command area of

  • Eglin Airman court-martialed for Spice

    An Airman with the 96th Medical Support Squadron was convicted of abusing the drug Spice and three other charges of distributing drugs to other Airmen, here March 23.Airman Marcus Bennett became the first Air Force member to be convicted through court-martial of using Spice, although his usage came

  • 68th EWS brings EW support to warfighters around world

    The four flights in the 68th Electronic Warfare Squadron labor tirelessly to provide real-time information to not only U.S. warfighters but to 21 allied nations, and have uncovered errors in programs that were undetected for more than a quarter century. "The mission of the 68th EWS is to increase

  • Eglin celebrates blessings at base national prayer breakfast

    The annual tradition of observing America's morning of prayer was celebrated with a reflection on the country's blessings led by Chaplain (Brig. Gen.) David Cyr March 25.As the Air Force Deputy Chief of Chaplains, he shares half the service-wide tour of installation prayer breakfasts and expressed

  • Air Force officials take step toward cleaner fuel, energy independence

    Air Force officials, embracing the national priorities of cleaner fuel and energy independence, took a step toward a greener, energy independent future when an A-10C Thunderbolt II here took to the air March 25 fueled with a blend of Hydrotreated Renewable Jet, or HRJ, and JP-8.This first-ever