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  • TRICARE family receives world-class care

    On a cold February day in 2004, a TRICARE family welcomed two beautiful conjoined twin girls into the world. Through a routine prenatal ultrasound at 18 weeks, the Buckles learned their babies were joined at the chest and abdomen. At 34 weeks in her pregnancy, a surgical team at National Naval

  • Eglin send security forces Airmen to Iraq in style

    A wall of red shirts makes its way through a crowd of 97 Airmen preparing to board an aircraft and make the journey over the Atlantic Ocean bound for the Middle East. The Red Shirt Brigade, a group of volunteers from the Army and Air Force Exchange Service and members of the Fort Walton Beach

  • AFRL scientist selected for Civilian Development Education

     A scientist from the Air Force Research Laboratory Munitions Directorate here has been selected for an Air Force senior development education program called the National Laboratory Technical Fellowship Program. John Cominiello is the first civilian to be selected for NLTFP at Sandia National

  • Fisher House brings home front to wounded GIs

    Winter weather took a break and the sun shone as more than 200 people attended the Dec. 18 groundbreaking of the Emerald Coast Fisher House, located by design across the street from the base hospital. Set to open its doors a year from now, the site of the future Fisher House boasts a 10,000

  • Museum honors seven volunteers

    The Air Force Armament Museum recently honored seven individuals for reaching new milestones in the museum's volunteer program Dec. 17 at a luncheon in Fort Walton Beach, Fla. The volunteers honored were: Bob Ritz - 100 Hours Jeannine Harper - 100 and 500 Hours (completed in same year) Lucian

  • Eglin hosts financial 'readiness' event Jan 14

    As the nation's economy fluctuates like winter weather in Northwest Florida, Eglin is set to host a financial counseling event to give some guidance to help weather those current and future economic storms. The Military Financial Readiness Challenge event, scheduled for Jan. 14 at the officers club

  • Base legal office offers advice about wills, divorce, evidence

    Most legal problems involve your former landlord, the guy who backed into your car or the car dealer that sold you a lemon at a 28 percent annual percentage rate. Before seeing an attorney, take this advice: collect as much evidence as you can about your dispute. The most important part of any legal

  • 59th TES wins international award

    If lions are kings of their domain, then the 59th Test and Evaluation Squadron "Lions" are kings of test and evaluation. The 59th TES Lions, at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., won the prestigious 2008 International Test and Evaluation Association Special Achievement Award for extraordinary achievement

  • The Inspector General available for complaints, self-inspections

    Ensuring compliance with standards, policies, programs or instructions, or discovering the possibility of fraud, waste and abuse are just some of the activities that keep the Inspector General's office viable. The Inspector General, Col. Bradley Denison, and his staff of two investigative officers,