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  • Unmanned QF-16 and Navy F-18s face off

    QF-16s assigned to the 82nd Aerial Target Squadron supported weapons testing Sept. 29 for Navy F-18s here. The F-18s conducted Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile tests and used the QF-16s as “target practice.”

  • Ready to Roar

    Less than two years ago, Senior Airman Terrence Ruffin became the youngest bodybuilder to become a professional.  Now with five pounds of extra muscle added and a professional contest win, he plans to reach to new heights when he ascends the stage at the largest bodybuilding competition in the

  • Couple set to move up to NCO together

    An Air Force couple and high school sweethearts received notice they would ascend to staff sergeant when the promotion list was announced August 25. Giovanni and Leah Bufalini-Balla met while they were sophomores in high school in Tennessee, married shortly after graduation in 2013 and enlisted in

  • Combat capability increases for F-35 platform

    Three F-35B aircraft and 75 U.S. Marines from Marine Operational Test & Evaluation Squadron 1 F-35B Detachment along with 21 test personnel from the JSF Operational Test Team from Edwards AFB, California deployed here  to complete operational test  missile shots of the AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range

  • Lightning strikes at largest F-35A deployment

    The 33rd Fighter Wing wrapped up the largest F-35 deployment to date at this year’s Exercise Northern Lightning Aug. 31 at Volk Field, Wis. Northern Lightning is a tactical-level, joint training exercise which serves as a combat rehearsal for both legacy and modern aerial and ground assets in a

  • F-35A shows superiority against legacy aircraft

    Imagine yourself in the seat of a fighter jet, tearing through the air at the speed of sound, your own weight pressing against your chest as you fight to breathe against the increased force of gravity.Sweat beads down your forehead as you scan you sensors and outside your canopy for any threats in

  • 263 Airmen selected for promotion to NCO

    Congratulations to Team Eglin's Airmen on their selection for promotion to staff sergeant. The 16,506 selected (Air Force wide) represent a 42.25 percent selection rate, with an average selectee overall score of 360.88. Selectees' average time-in-grade was 2.12 years and time-in-service was 4.55

  • A family tradition

    It’s the summer of 1967. Lyndon B. Johnson is president, Rolling Stone published their first magazine and girls all over the world are going crazy over an English boy-band called The Beatles.Right now, none of that matters. With sweaty hands, a young cadet carries his helmet bag toward the F-4