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  • The Dynamic Duo: Diet and Exercise

    The Civilian Health Promotion Service was established for DoD civilians to promote health and wellness at the nine AFMC installations. The Eglin office has been in service since May of 2005. The CHPS featured service is annual, no-cost cholesterol screening. One of the questions that is always asked

  • Eglin wildland fire managers effectively manage smoke

    More than halfway through their annual prescribed burning season with more than 40,000 acres burned, Eglin wildland fire managers continue efforts to minimize impacts on urban areas from the smoke that is produced by the fires. Each year, through their prescribed burning program, Eglin wildland fire

  • Medical Group earns top honors

    "...I feel it absolutely necessary to tell one and all that we in this area are among the extremely fortunate to have the finest medical facility anywhere. I speak of the base hospital at Eglin Air Force Base."* An unsolicited letter to the editor of the local newspaper recently affirmed what the

  • Eglin Airmen experience fine dining in Napa

    Chow hall or mess hall, call it what you may. Neither typically conjures up images of fine dining, but soon Eglin's Breeze Dining Facility will be serving up some new cuisine that will tempt the taste buds. The Hennessy Travelers Association's Educational Foundation recently gave 50 Air Force food

  • Jackson Guard reopens two fishing ponds

    Eglin natural resources managers at Jackson Guard have restocked fish and plan to reopen Lower Memorial Lake and Speck Pond for fishing enthusiasts on March 16. These two fishing areas have been inactive after dams had failed at each of the areas in 2004, Jeremy Preston, Eglin wildlife technician

  • Poor ticket sales close base theater

    The Eglin Theater will close on March 24 because it has been operating in the red the last two years. According to Myra Moore, AAFES General Manager of the Eglin/Hurlburt Exchange, AAFES has had to take a hard look at whether or not to continue operating any facility that is operating at a loss.

  • Captain sentenced following guilty verdict

    Capt. Devery L. Taylor, 96th Medical Group, was sentenced today after being found guilty Feb. 27 on four counts of forcible sodomy, two counts of attempted sodomy, two counts of kidnapping and one count of unlawful entry.Captain Taylor was sentenced to 50 years confinement, forfeiture of all pay and