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  • Show Support: Help make basketball tourney special

    Athletes from the Florida Special Olympics will gather at Eglin Feb. 6 and 7 for the 2009 Northwest Sectional basketball tournament. The guest speaker for the basketball tournament is Northwest Florida State College Women's Basketball coach Bart Walker. Tournaments will be held at the Eglin Main Gym

  • Eglin EOD Flight works with munitions from idea to implementation

    There are no routine days for explosive ordnance disposal technicians. On any given day, technicians may be disabling improvised explosive devices in the Global War on Terror, investigating suspicious packages found in the community or working with a team to recover fingerprints from bombs to

  • Airman support the Presidential Inauguration

    This is the third story in a series about Eglin Airmen who supported the inauguration.Two Airmen from the 96th Logistics Readiness Squadron had unique experiences recently in support of the Presidential Inauguration. Senior Airmen LaRose Bacani and Angela Espiritu are two supply troops who work

  • Testing titanic A-10 cannon

    What may be mistaken as a fog horn frequently blasting throughout the base is actually one of the largest, heaviest and most powerful aircraft cannon in the U.S. military--the GAU-8/A. The GAU 8/A is mounted in the A-10 Thunderbolt II and is capable of firing 4,000 rounds per minute with a muzzle

  • Airmen walk in senior leaders' boots

    Eight junior Airmen and civilians spent the day with Eglin's top leaders in different areas around the base - walking in their shadows. Officers, enlisted and civilian Airmen spent time with commanders during the Eglin Junior Force Council's Shadow Week program Jan. 26 through 30 to get a better

  • Food handlers provide meals in Washington, D.C.

    This is the second  in a series on Eglin Airmen who supported the inauguration.Feeding the masses of security personnel needed to protect the President during his recent inauguration was a formidable task. Two food handlers assigned to the 96th Services Squadron took on that challenge by being part

  • Eglin phases in new energy audit training

    Eglin continues to build up its energy management efforts after approximately 70 facility managers attended energy audit training Jan. 28. The objective of the training was to prepare facility managers to conduct the simplest of three energy audits, Phase I, on the facilities they are responsible