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  • Eglin’s own comes home for air show

    Major David Lemery is in his second season with the U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, The Thunderbirds, as #11, the team's Maintenance Officer. Prior to joining the premier team, the major was stationed here for three years.The University of Texas at San Antonio graduate spent his 11-year

  • Eglin's Air Show this weekend

    The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds will headline the 75th Anniversary Eglin Air Force Base Air Show this weekend, Apr. 10-11. Gates open at 9 a.m. to the general public and it's free for anyone attending this event. The gates will close to the general public at 3 p.m.Department of Defense ID card

  • Eglin Airman supports force protection, security efforts

    Senior Airman Ryan Quick is a security forces journeyman with the 380th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron at a non-disclosed location here.Airman Quick is deployed from the 96th Security Forces Squadron at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., and his hometown is Stone Ridge, N.Y. As a security forces

  • First JSF Marine squadron stands up at Eglin

    Military history was made when the first-ever Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II training squadron, Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 501, stood up here April 2.The significance of the occasion was it also marked the first time a Marine Corps squadron was embedded in an Air Force wing."And they

  • Eglin Airman saves children, dog from house fire

    "I kicked into mother mode and got hit with instincts," said the local hero who risked her life to save others in the face of a devastating fire in base housing.Senior Airman Ratchel Chapman, 728th Air Control Squadron knowledge operation manager, pulled two children and a family dog from a house

  • Kid vision: Tour gives youth inside look

    Nearly 20 children from the Taunton Family Children's Home toured the base to learn more about the service and experienced day-to-day Air Force operations March 29. "[The children] are on spring break, and I am sure they don't get a chance to put hands on aircraft every day," said Maj. Joseph

  • Aerial Port Airmen move personnel, cargo downrange

    The most important assets of any military operation are its people and equipment. Without them, success is unattainable. Enter the 386th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron's Aerial Port - a team whose mission is to move personnel and cargo in and out of the U.S. Central Command area of

  • CMSAF visits Eglin

    The top enlisted Airman addressed some of the top issues facing Airmen during a visit here March 17-18.The role battlefield Airmen play in deployed operations is an area of focus because it ties into one of the Air Force's priorities, said Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force James A. Roy. "I am