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  • Air Force set to defend three-peat as Armed Forces champions

    Nine all-Air Force softball team veterans and six rookies will help their service vie for a four-peat at the Armed Forces Softball Championship tournament at Foster Stadium here Sept. 12-14. With four of the last five championships in their dugout, the all-Air Force team feels their Army, Navy and

  • General Lanni bids farewell, lauds Team Eglin

    Approximately 160 people expressed their best wishes to Brig. Gen. Joseph A. Lanni and his family during a farewell luncheon held in his honor August 30 at the Eglin Officers' Club. From February 2006 to August 2007, General Lanni served as vice commander of the Air Armament Center here. The

  • Now's the Time to Think

    While summer still reminds us of its presence, flu season waits around the corner. Influenza season begins in November and runs through March/April with the season peaking in February. While flu is an extremely uncomfortable illness, more importantly, flu can be a deadly illness. It accounts for

  • Coalition exercise focused on improving combat identification

    The Joint Fires Integration and Interoperability Team is preparing to deploy with an eight nation coalition to assess technologies in an advanced concept technology demonstration designed to reduce friendly fire incidents and enhance combat effectiveness. JFIIT, a subordinate command of U.S. Joint

  • Eglin welcomes new arrivals

    Congratulations to the following parents, who welcomed their new arrivals while stationed here. It's a boy! Brandon Mark, born May 14 to Mark and Christi Carter Xavier Santiago, born July 17 to Staff Sgt. Frank and Melina Russell Brodie Mykal, born July 18 to Donnie and Staff Sgt. Meghan Arentt

  • Administrative driving suspension policy goes into effect Sept. 1

    Effective Sept. 1, drivers talking on their cell phones, speeding or littering are just some traffic violations that will lead to a suspension of on-base driving privileges. The 96th Security Forces Squadron is enforcing an administrative driving suspension policy. Anyone using a cell phone without

  • Air Force discontinues use of base decals

    Air Force officials are working with other services to allow its people to enter installations without requiring them to display a base decal on their vehicles. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley recently ended use of the sticker, officially called a DD Form 2220, on Air Force

  • West Coast Demo Team flies east for Moscow Air Show

    The F-15 West Coast Demonstration Team stationed with the 33rd Fighter Wing here hits the international road on Aug. 16 to highlight the F-15C air superiority capabilities to the international community. The team will perform at the Moscow Air Show in Russia and the Radom Air Show in Poland. Eight

  • Eglin celebrates Women’s Equality Day

    In 1971, the US Congress at the request of US Representative Bella Abzug established August 26 of each year as Women's Equality Day. On that date in 1920, Tennessee state legislator Harry Burns, after receiving a letter from his mother who urged him to vote for ratification, voted in favor of the