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  • Moseley: Use Airmen for what they do best

    The Air Force chief of staff said he intends to resist requests for airmen to fill Army and Marine Corps jobs when those assignments fall far outside the airmen's core competencies. Gen. T. Michael Moseley also said that while he understands the Pentagon plan to divert $800 million each from the Air

  • OPSEC - a family responsibility

    "Hi ... I'm Jane Doe, 23, married to John, 25. He works in SFS as a gate guard. He is deployed right now and will be home May 10 after being gone for nine months!! We have one son, Johnny, who is 20 months. We have been here for a little over a year. We came from Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota ... we

  • Eglin members get work chosen to showcase in AF gallery

    A new Air Force Services Website is giving 11 Eglin artists a chance to share something personal with the world via the Internet...how they see their world. Throughout the ages, art has been a medium people have used to express their views of the world and their reality. From stories being told on

  • Eglin 2007 summer hire program cancelled

    The Air Armament Center summer hire program is cancelled this year due to budget cuts. This decision is necessary because the civilian payroll for Eglin's AFMC units has been funded at roughly 92 percent of civilian authorizations, leaving a $5 million deficit as a result of our civilian pay

  • Air Force recognizes excellence

    Thomas Smith is a spiritual man. He walks the walk and talks the talk, and his positive attitude inspires those he works with to reach great heights. Mr. Smith's leadership and motivation recently earned him an Air Force Individual Installation Award. The Crestview native is a warehouse supervisor

  • Eglin commemorates 65th Anniversary of Doolittle Raid with historical marker

    A top-secret, two-week training initiative at Eglin Field in 1942, set in motion a sequence of events that changed the course of the war in the Pacific during World War II. To commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Doolittle Raid on Japan and the role played by, then, Eglin Field in that secret

  • Enlisted Thunderbirds Visit Air Force Widows

    When the pilots of the Thunderbirds, the Air Force's air demonstration team, perform their precision maneuvers thousands of feet above an Air Show crowd, they're applauded and admired - from a distance. The enlisted Airmen who maintain the F-16 jets flown by the Thunderbird pilots are similarly

  • Volunteers recognized at ceremony

    It's a check that can't be cashed, but it's already paying big dividends. The Voluntary Advisory Committee presented a check worth more than $1.4 million to Col Dean Clemons, 96th Air Base Wing commander at the Volunteer Recognition Ceremony April 17. The amount represents what the base saved thanks

  • Eglin Eagles head north for Spring

    The 33rd Fighter Wing's 60th Fighter Squadron deployed from Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., March 29 to participate in Red Flag-Alaska 07-1, scheduled from April 5-21. Sixteen F-15Cs and 240 pilots and maintainers will join more than 1,100 service members from the United States, France and Australia

  • Army Rangers set to host Ranger Run, Open House

    The 6th Ranger Training Battalion will be hosting a 5k and 10k race called the Swamp Ranger Run prior to the Ranger Camp's annual Open House event May 6. The Swamp Ranger Run is sponsored by the Swamp Ranger Association and the Northwest Florida Track Club. It will be held on an annual basis in