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  • AF mourns loss of 9th Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force

    The ninth Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force James C. Binnicker passed away March 21 in Calhoun, Ga.Chief Binnicker was born in Orangeburg, S.C., on July 23, 1938. He was a leader and an Airman from the day he first joined the Civil Air Patrol as a high school freshman. His childhood dream was to

  • Contractor breaks ground on new base housing

    Corvias Military Living, held a groundbreaking ceremony here March 20 to mark the start of construction of 747 new homes and a 12,000-square-foot state-of-the-art community center."The new homes coming to Eglin will provide residents with dramatically increased connectivity to their community," said

  • First production QF-16 arrives at Tyndall

    The first Air Force Lot 1 production QF-16 touched down here March 11. The aircraft fulfills the first of 13 deliveries to the 82nd Aerial Targets Squadron.  This is the first production QF-16 aircraft to be delivered off of the Drone Peculiar Equipment production line."Today culminates five years

  • E-9A Widget, one of a kind

    The mission of the Air Force is like a highly complex machine. Each piece of the machine is vital to it operating successfully. The E-9A Widget is a very small, yet highly important piece to that machine."It is the U.S. Air Force's only dedicated sea-surveillance, telemetry relay and UHF radio relay

  • La. National Guardsmen in crash identified

    Four Louisiana National Guardsmen from the 1st Assault Helicopter Battalion, 244th Aviation Regiment who died in a training accident, March 10, have been identified.Chief Warrant Officer 4 George Wayne Griffin Jr, 37; Chief Warrant Officer 4 George David Strother, 44; Staff Sgt. Lance Bergeron, 40;

  • Marines involved in crash identified

    It is with a heavy heart that U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Special Operations Command formally announces the names of the seven Marines who died when a U.S. Army UH-60 Blackhawk Helicopter crashed near here at approximately 8:30 p.m. March 10, 2015.Dead are:Capt. Stanford H. Shaw, III, 31, from Basking