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  • Air Force recognizes excellence

    Thomas Smith is a spiritual man. He walks the walk and talks the talk, and his positive attitude inspires those he works with to reach great heights. Mr. Smith's leadership and motivation recently earned him an Air Force Individual Installation Award. The Crestview native is a warehouse supervisor

  • Eglin joint integration vital for Atlantic Strike participants

    The Joint Fires Integration and Interoperability Team from Joint Forces Command helped Exercise Atlantic Strike V participants improve joint combat effectiveness April 14 to 20 here. "Through our participation, we are able to help the context of the scenarios and increase joint play," said Marine

  • Fifth graders launch space project

    Fifth-grade students from three elementary schools kicked off the 12th annual Marsville Project April 20, culminating six weeks of study about space. The project required students from Cherokee, Longwood and Valparaiso Elementary Schools to experience a day of living in "space" simulated in Hangar

  • 'We Remember'

    Fourteen names. Fourteen young lives lost in service to their country. "We remember." That phrase rang across the Kauffman Explosive Ordnance Disposal Training Complex April 21 for the 38th annual memorial service. Hundreds of friends, family and service people remembered loved ones and fellow EOD

  • Eglin commemorates 65th Anniversary of Doolittle Raid with historical marker

    A top-secret, two-week training initiative at Eglin Field in 1942, set in motion a sequence of events that changed the course of the war in the Pacific during World War II. To commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Doolittle Raid on Japan and the role played by, then, Eglin Field in that secret

  • Enlisted Thunderbirds Visit Air Force Widows

    When the pilots of the Thunderbirds, the Air Force's air demonstration team, perform their precision maneuvers thousands of feet above an Air Show crowd, they're applauded and admired - from a distance. The enlisted Airmen who maintain the F-16 jets flown by the Thunderbird pilots are similarly

  • Volunteers recognized at ceremony

    It's a check that can't be cashed, but it's already paying big dividends. The Voluntary Advisory Committee presented a check worth more than $1.4 million to Col Dean Clemons, 96th Air Base Wing commander at the Volunteer Recognition Ceremony April 17. The amount represents what the base saved thanks

  • Flag to fly at half mast

    By direction of the installation commander, all flags on Eglin AFB will fly at half mast until Sunday, April 22, in rememberance of those killed at Virginia Tech.