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  • Sister Strong to unite area military spouses

    Members of a new program designed to bring local military spouses together will launch their first event in October. Sister Strong, an organization made up of spouses of service members from Eglin, Hurlburt Field, 7th Special Forces Group and the 6th Ranger Training Battalion, was recently created

  • Team Eglin remembers with POW/MIA Recognition Day

    Hundreds gathered for the annual Prisoner-of-War and Missing-in-Action recognition ceremony at the Air Force Armament Museum here, Sept. 21. The 53rd Wing hosted the ceremony, featuring retired Lt. Col. Bruce McKenty, the national commander of the Military Order of the Purple Heart, as guest

  • Air Force runs with new F-35 engine program

    An Airman seated in an aircraft, surrounded by electronic displays, surveys the cockpit of an F-35A Lightning II and begins rehearsed procedures that now feel comfortable. He feels the jet's familiar rumble below as the engine roars to life on the flightline. If you imagined the person in the seat

  • Eglin soccer team wins Defender's Cup

    Eglin's soccer team won the Defender's Cup tournament, hosted at Lackland Air Force Base Sept. 1-3.Eglin's 16-member team triumphed over 22 armed forces teams. They outscored their opponents 20-3 in seven matches over the three days."We were talked about as the team to beat," said Jeff Gibson, who

  • Navy F-35 squadron holds ceremony for new chiefs

    Four Strike Fighter Squadron 101 Sailors were formally advanced to chief petty officer at the squadron's first chief petty officer pinning ceremony here Sept. 14.Members of VFA-101, the Navy's first F-35 squadron, gathered to witness new chief petty officers Robert Powell, John Adair, Chris Cid and