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  • Warrior finds new life through Warrior camp

    For Rachel Francis, the Wounded Warrior program offered avenues to personal excellence and hope she never expected.Francis, the program's marketing coordinator since October, was selected for the position because of her background and great attitude.  This impressed staff members at the adaptive

  • Warrior Care attendee joins Games team a year later

    Since training here in 2015 at his first adaptive sports and rehabilitation camp, Chris Fugitt has made significant changes and improvements in his life.He progressed from just attending as a Warrior Care recipient last year, to training with the Warrior Games team this year, which heads to West

  • Air Force team wins at inaugural D3 summit

    An Air Force team originating from Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., recently won an award at the inaugural Defense, Diplomacy and Development Innovation Summit Pitch Challenge, organized jointly by the Defense Department, State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development here.Staff Sgt.

  • Reaper continues legacy of RPA firsts at WSEP

    (EDITOR'S NOTE:  Due to ISR and Holloman AFB policy regarding the MQ-9, the last names of maintenance, operations and intelligence personnel are removed.)The MQ-9 Reaper demonstrated a wide range of weapons capability firsts during the air-to-ground Weapon System Evaluation Program here from March

  • Breeze Dining Facility reopens

    The Breeze Dining Facility will reopen for business March 24 after closing for renovations in November 2014. Some of the major upgrades during the 16-month period included: replacement of walls and floors in the customer service and dining areas, behind the serving line and in the kitchen.Other

  • F-35A training syllabus advances ahead of IOC

    Two F-35A Lightning II aircraft assigned to the 33rd Fighter Wing here successfully employed two laser-guided bombs March 3 at a nearby range, advancing the Air Force's F-35A training syllabus ahead of its initial operational capability.The training mission was the first time the Florida-based

  • Space squadron begins exterior renovation

    The 20th Space Control Squadron began a four-month-long renovation project to replace the protective cover on the site's radar here March 1.The TEFLON-like radar cover needs 10 stories replaced on one side and seven stories on an opposing side.  Due to the location of the radar, the construction

  • C-17 puts flares to the test over Eglin

    A 62nd Airlift Wing C-17 Globemaster III aircrew found itself away from the rainy climate of Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., and into the sunshine here to participate in an Air Mobility Command flare effectiveness test, that began Feb. 29.The C-17 crew along with a C-5 crew from Travis AFB, Calif.,

  • 33rd maintainers load GBU-12s onto F-35As for first time

    In the morning hours of March 3, 33rd Fighter Wing maintainers loaded four GBU-12 munitions into F-35A Lighting II aircraft for the first time, here.Airmen from the 58th Aircraft Maintenance Unit weapons section loaded the guided munitions in preparation for pilots to launch them from the F-35A

  • 23 selected for promotion to senior master sergeant

    Congratulations to all of Team Eglin's Airmen on their selection for promotion to senior master sergeant.The 1,467 selected (Air Force wide) represent a 12.32 percent selection rate, with an average selectee overall score of 533.18. Selectees' average time-in-grade was 4.30 years and time-in-service