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  • Honor Guard Graduation December 2017

    Airmen graduate to Honor Guard

    A new group of Airmen complete the course and become members of Team Eglin Honor Guard.
  • New base pass procedures

    Base pass procedures change with new year

    The 96th Security Forces Squadron will modify the current procedures to sponsor visitors coming onto the installation beginning Jan. 1.
  • Combat Shield inspection

    Shielding the Guard

    53rd Wing's Combat Shield inspects South Carolina Air National Guard.
  • Eglin hosts Technology Expo

    Technology Expo returns

    Eglin hosts Technology Expo
  • Chief Release

    Seven promoted to chief master sergeant

    Congratulations to Team Eglin's Airmen on their selection for promotion to chief master sergeant.
  • Lt. Col. Ryan Inman, 82nd Aerial Targets Squadron commander, flies a QF-16 across the horizon May 12 at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla. The QF-16 is a Full Scale Aerial Target that has been modified to be flown with a pilot in the cockpit for training and also without a pilot as a target for live missile testing. The 82nd ATRS received their first QF-16 in September of 2014 and will continue to transition their full scale aerial target program to the new model over the next several months. The 82nd ATRS operates QF-4, QF-16 and BQM-167 targets to provide manned and unmanned aerial targets support for programs across the Department of Defense. (U.S. Air Force photo/Sara Vidoni)

    Taking aim at Team Target

    Watching fighter aircraft zoom across the sky often conjures thoughts of strength, air superiority and sheer supremacy. For others, images of pilots, maintainers and the flightline provide that source of inspiration. What many may not realize is the importance of what happens behind-the-scenes and beneath those flying fighter jets.
  • Veterans Day celebration

    Veterans go back to school

    More than 45 active duty and retired military members, from all branches of service, participate in the C. W. Ruckel Middle School Veterans Day Celebration.
  • Maritime exercise 2017

    Local boats become targets for AF fighters

    A-10s and F-16s flew over Choctawatchee Bay targeting swarms of fast-moving boats during a air-to-ground evaluation Nov. 3.
  • Air National Guard units participated in Combat Hammer. This was the first multi-unit weapons systems evaluation program for the ANG units and their maintainers. The 86 th Fighter Weapons Squadron’s Combat Hammer is a weapons system evaluation program for air-to-ground munitions.

    Fear the Reaper

    Air National Guard MQ-9 units participate in the 86th Fighter Weapons Squadron’s Combat Hammer, weapons system evaluation program for air-to-ground munitions. This was the first multi-unit weapons systems evaluation program for the ANG units and their maintainers.
  • F-16 WSEP Nov 2017

    Fighting 55th drop bombs at Combat Hammer

    Shaw AFB F-16s participate in air-to-ground exercise at Eglin AFB.
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