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  • AFMC's Wingman Intervention program going strong

    More than two years after it was introduced, Air Force Materiel Command's Wingman Intervention program is still going strong."AFMC made a concerted effort to provide its Airmen with the skills and confidence they need to safely intervene when they see fellow Airmen entering into potentially harmful

  • New policies detail toy drone use on base

    Some flight operations are no longer just for the professionals. With Christmas just around the corner, residents may see more drone activity in the skies, and not the kind performing Department of Defense missions.According to the Consumer Electronics Association, sales of commercial drones, or as

  • DOD identifies Air Force casualties

    The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of six airmen who were supporting Operation Freedom's Sentinel.  They died Dec. 21 of wounds suffered when their patrol was attacked by a suicide bomber on a motorcycle near Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan.Killed were:Maj. Adrianna M.

  • Nine Eglin Airmen selected for Chief

    The Air Force selected 525 out of 2,521 eligible senior master sergeants for promotion to chief master sergeant for a 20.83 percent selection rate.The average promotion score for those selected was 529.21. Average time-in-grade was 3.21 years and time-in-service was 21.68 years. The average

  • Wing's facility manager retires after 52 years of service

    In 1963, Beatlemania was only beginning. Troll dolls were the rage.  Gas was only 30 cents/gallons, and for less than a dollar you could go see Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra at the box office.  In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I have a dream speech," and President John F. Kennedy was

  • Military, community break ground on state's largest solar projects

    The Navy and the Air Force broke ground with Gulf Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company, today at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, marking the start of construction for three large-scale solar electric generating facilities.Combined, these facilities will have approximately 1.5 million solar