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  • Giving Mother Nature a helping hand

    Volunteers offered Mother Nature a helping hand by planting nearly 100 trees on Eglin's reservation Jan. 15.The event was an effort to control soil erosion out on the reservation. The 96th Environmental Management Natural Resources Section, Jackson Guard, armed with 24 volunteers, planted a total of

  • Pulled pork for support

    (Editor's note: Sadly,  Tech. Sgt. Eric Olafsen passed away Jan. 19, after  this article was written. All proceeds from the fundraisers covered in this article will still go to his family.)The scent of sizzling barbecue hung in the air surrounding the petroleum, oil and lubricant hub here, Jan. 14.

  • School takes students to new heights

    Airmen takeoff into a high flying career upon graduating from their classroom that hovers 500 feet off the ground.Aspiring students training at the 23rd Flying Training Squadron in Fort Rucker, Ala., are the Air Force's primary source of helicopter pilots for special ops, combat search and rescue,

  • BRAC Medical Expansion Clinic breaks ground

    Ground was broken today on a BRAC Medical Expansion Clinic, guaranteeing the smiles of more than 45,000 beneficiaries stay bright for many years.The 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Committee directed the 7th Special Forces Group and the Joint Strike Fighter Training Center here and that decision

  • Bi-annual PT testing has arrived

    Are you due to test?That's the question base officials are asking active duty Air Force members, now that the new bi-annual fitness testing has started."Eglin warriors need to know when they need to take their PT test," said Chief Master Sgt. Thomas Westermeyer, 96th Air Base Wing command chief. "It

  • Marine takes helm of Air Force wing

    Duty of commanding the 33rd Fighter Wing falls to Marine Col. Arthur Tomassetti, while the Air Force commander attends a professional military education course. "I am humbled to have been entrusted with commanding the 33rd FW in the commander's absence, humbled not because he trusted me to run the

  • Eglin mom of seven continues military family tradition

    She was a 45 year-old married, stay-at-home mom of seven children and caring for an elderly uncle. Living in South Berwick, Maine -- her life was content. Flash forward three years and she is a captain in the U.S. Air Force working as a trauma nurse at Kirkuk Regional Air Base, Iraq."If you would