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  • AFRL teams compete to solve real-world problems

    Two teams of junior force personnel drawn from across Air Force Materiel Command are hard at work on the Air Force Research Laboratory's 7th annual Commander's Challenge, a six-month competition during which teams focus on developing a viable technology solution to a pressing, real-world warfighter

  • Eglin Airmen visits Kyrgyzstan "babushkas"

    Babushka, in Russian, means grandmother or elder woman and is common terminology in Kyrgyzstan. The volunteers are members of the Manas Area Benefit Outreach Society that sponsors 10 babushkas in the local area. Each babushka is given a quarterly stipend of approximately 2,300 soms that equates to

  • B-1 aircrews employ laser JDAMS during Combat Hammer

    For the first time in history, B-1 aircrews from Ellsworth employed laser Joint Direct Attack Munitions against moving targets during a Weapon System Evaluation Program exercise May 14 to 16.Aircrews from the 37th Bomb Squadron "Tigers" and 34th BS "Thunderbirds" employed six GBU-54 laser JDAMs

  • Eglin announces newest master sergeants

    Air Force officials selected 5,464 of 19,809 eligible technical sergeants for promotion to master sergeant for a 27.58 percent selection rate. The average score for those selected was 332.85, with an average time in grade of 4.43 years and time in service of 15.58 years respectively.Congratulations

  • Base Library wins federal award

    The base library recently won the Federal Library and Information Network's best small federal library or information center award for 2011.Last week, members of the library staff accepted the award at the Library of Congress. According to the FEDLINK release, the Eglin's library was recognized for

  • Merchant meets with base leadership for DUI solutions

    "We're here to identify solutions to our DUI situation," Maj. Gen. Kenneth Merchant said to a room of more than 70 enlisted and officer leadership from across the base May 11.The meeting brought together Eglin's joint-service leadership after two more driving under the influence arrests over the