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  • Eglin’s 2007 New Year baby arrives

    With the initials T.N.T., expectations would warrant that she would have come in with a bang. That was not quite the case for Eglin Hospital's first baby of the 2007 New Year. Trinity Nicole Trudeau was born Jan. 2 at 7:26 a.m., weighing 8 pounds, 7.4 ounces and 20 inches long. "I didn't think we

  • Eglin performs largest "cook-off" test ever

    No one does cook-offs bigger than the 46th Test Wing. On Dec. 14, the 780th Test Squadron suspended a rocket motor over a 2,622 square foot pan full of approximately 28,000 gallons of jet fuel and lit it on fire for what is called a fast cookoff test. This test on a Ground-based Midcourse Defense

  • Command partnership council comes to Eglin

    The Air Force Materiel Command Partnership Council continued its discussion of how to meet civilian work force needs in the face of budget and manpower reductions during a series of meetings here Nov. 2 through 3. The council's latest initiative is to buy licenses to put computer stations in

  • Eglin gears up for joint command Operational Readiness Inspection

    The old adage of "practice makes perfect" may not have stemmed from an operational readiness inspection, but its meaning couldn't be more appropriate. After preparing for more than a year, wing leadership believes Team Eglin is ready to demonstrate their wartime proficiencies for the Air Combat

  • Walk honors veterans

    "Let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that their efforts shall not have been in vain." Spoken

  • Combat training system fielded for first time

    The Air Force's next generation air combat training system has been handed to the user.The P5 Combat Training System was delivered to Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., Oct. 19, courtesy of Eglin's 689th Armament Systems Squadron. "There have been a number of challenges this team has had to overcome since