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  • DANGER: Don't feed the bears

    Avid wildlife lovers beware: feeding bears is not advised and can be dangerous to you, the bear, your family and pets. Eglin wildlife management personnel have noticed a surge in Florida black bear movement in and around the Eglin reservation over the past several months and instances of them

  • Duke team strikes out Eglin bowling champions

    Three wing personnel and four other members became this year's Eglin Air Force Base Bowling Champions when they rose from being one of the lowest ranking teams midway to defeating the base' s reigning champions in a tournament that ended May 29. Master Sgts. Steven Bicknell and Jeffrey Norton, 919th

  • Air Force, Navy fighter squadrons team for dissimilar training

    The blue flights caps were the first sign something different had landed here. The 60th Fighter Squadron from the 33rd Fighter Wing at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., deployed 16 F-15Cs and more than 200 personnel June 15 for two weeks of dissimilar air combat training as an exercise in joint training

  • Labor and management sign local supplement agreement

    With the flourish of a pen, Eglin's union and senior management signed an agreement that was reached in record-breaking time. Brig. Gen. David Eidsaune, Air Armament Center Commander and Program Executive Officer for Weapons and American Federation of Government Employees Local 1897 President Peter

  • Military members target of bank phising scam

    The Air Force Network Operations Center, Intelligence and Reconnaissance Division (AFNOC-IRD) has recently identified new attempts at targeting military members with military-affiliated bank phishing scams. Mass email spamming is the fastest growing email scam known as "phishing". Currently,

  • Fire training takes unique twist

    "Have fun, learn something and build teamwork." After hearing those words, the first of two four-man teams of firefighters standing ready began their calculated movements towards a kitchen fire raging in a single-story multiplex unit in base housing. While the fire was real, attacking the flames was

  • Academy cadets visit Eglin for Operation Air Force

    Nearly 75 Academy cadets will call Eglin Air Force Base home for three weeks this summer as they participate in Operation Air Force, a summer learning program to provide cadets with day-to-day experiences and knowledge of the Air Force. The first wave of 25 rising sophomore, junior and senior cadets

  • Eglin tightens water consumption

    Effective immediately, Col. Dean Clemons, 96th Air Base Wing commander, has mandated that Eglin personnel living on base comply with the water conservation guidelines set forth by the Northwest Florida Water Management District. In a press release distributed earlier this month, Water Management