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  • TRICARE ends walk-in admin services

    The Tricare Service Center will close for walk-in services April 1 here.The closure is part of a Department of Defense plan to close 189 Tricare facilities, saving more than $250 million over the next five years. "The closure of the walk-in Tricare Service Center will not affect any Tricare medical

  • Keep safety in mind when returning to work

    Eglin will return to normal duty at noon today. However, road conditions vary widely in the surrounding areas. No one should risk their own safety or that of a loved one. Please err on the side of caution and take care of your families. If you cannot safely make it to work, coordinate with your duty

  • Temporary gate closures important, critical to base security

    Keeping the base secure can be a thankless job, especially when the gates close at quitting time.The Base Defense Operations Center or BDOC and installation entry controllers deal with frustrated drivers who must wait when base defense requires a gate closure. Incidents such as missing children and

  • Commissary to close, Exchange unaffected by government shutdown

    The Army & Air Force Exchange Service will continue operations in the event of a U.S. Government shutdown on Oct. 1.Defense Commissary Agency stores will be open for a full business day Oct. 1 to reduce the amount of perishables on-hand, before beginning a systematic closure process to account for

  • Base's morning traffic delays explained

    Recent changes at the gates have led to lots of questions from morning motorists inbound to the base. The main factor which led to the closure of the fourth inbound lane at the East Gate was the manning shortfall faced by the 96th Security Forces Squadron, according to Lt. Col. Jeffry Hollman, 96th

  • Follow the rules to avoid a ticket

    A stack of citations sits on Senior Airman David Mullen's desk. They are some of the more than 150 tickets issued last month by the 96th Security Forces Squadron.Mullen, a ticket clerk in the reports and administration section, spends a good part of his day entering the citations into a data base

  • Vehicles on the road, iron in the air

    With more than 45 different airframes in the Air Force's inventory totaling more than 5,500 aircraft, each one needs expert teams, equipment and ground vehicles to keep them ready to fly at a moment's notice. "We keep vehicles on the road to get 'iron' in the air," said Chief Master Sgt. David

  • Unmanned QF-4 crashes at Tyndall

    An unmanned Air Force QF-4 full-scale aerial target drone, assigned here to the 53rd Weapons Evaluation Group, crashed on the drone runway during take-off at 8:25 a.m. today. No personnel were injured during the incident.Base and local police and safety officials have closed Highway 98 and are

  • Eglin Airman participates in Liberian medical outreach

    A team of Armed Forces of Liberia soldiers, U.S. service members and county health officials conducted a mobile medical outreach mission in Grand Cape Mount County recently. The mobile mission held from July 1 to July 4, 2013, was a first for the AFL medics, who, until now, have been focusing their

  • Above-normal hurricane season expected

    With Tropical Storm Andrea kicking off the 2013 hurricane season already, Team Eglin members should prepare for what experts are predicting will be an active hurricane season. According to a recent advisory issued by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Hurricane Center,