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  • Finding a Nomad

    “Our Nomads have ceased their wandering” is the epitaph engraved on top of the 33rd Fighter Wing’s Khobar Towers memorial dedicated to the 12 Nomads who lost their lives. The journey for one Nomad on that wall may have come to an end, but for his sister it has just begun.

  • Tick, tick, boom

    33rd Fighter Wing weapons load crew became certified to load an AIM-9X Next Generation Sidewinder on a F-35A Lightning II.

  • Polish leadership visits Eglin

    The goal was to determine the requirements for Poland's imminent acquisition of the F-35A and to tour the maintenance academic training facility.

  • Eglin's Navy F-35C squadron deactivates

    After seven years, U.S. Navy Strike Fighter Squadron 101, aka the “Grim Reapers” deactivated here May 23. The assets were consolidated to Naval Air Station Lemoore, California.

  • Innovation in tight spaces

    As Hurricane Michael churned toward the Emerald Coast of Florida, narrowly missing Eglin, a different type of storm brewed on the horizon that would test Nomad innovation.

  • 53rd Wing begins F-35 operational test, evaluation

    The 31st Test and Evaluation Squadron kicked off the Defense Department’s F-35 Lightning II Initial Operational Test and Evaluation with a large force employment sortie from Edwards AFB, California, Dec. 5.