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  • Contractor breaks ground on new base housing

    Corvias Military Living, held a groundbreaking ceremony here March 20 to mark the start of construction of 747 new homes and a 12,000-square-foot state-of-the-art community center."The new homes coming to Eglin will provide residents with dramatically increased connectivity to their community," said

  • First production QF-16 arrives at Tyndall

    The first Air Force Lot 1 production QF-16 touched down here March 11. The aircraft fulfills the first of 13 deliveries to the 82nd Aerial Targets Squadron.  This is the first production QF-16 aircraft to be delivered off of the Drone Peculiar Equipment production line."Today culminates five years

  • E-9A Widget, one of a kind

    The mission of the Air Force is like a highly complex machine. Each piece of the machine is vital to it operating successfully. The E-9A Widget is a very small, yet highly important piece to that machine."It is the U.S. Air Force's only dedicated sea-surveillance, telemetry relay and UHF radio relay

  • 21 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 1,257 selected (Air Force wide) represent a 8.75 percent selection rate, with an average selectee overall score of 680.90. Selectees' average time-in-grade was 4.34 years and time-in-service

  • Eglin celebrates Black History Month

    Eglin community members gathered at the Black History Month luncheon at the Bayview Club Jan. 25 to celebrate this year's theme, "A Century of Black Life, History and Culture."The occasion focused on the invaluable accomplishments and contributions military and civilian African-Americans have made

  • Wings announce annual award winners

    This month, the three wings of Team Eglin named their annual award winners for 2014.  Congratulations to those who were chosen from the 33rd Fighter Wing, 53rd Wing and 96th Test Wing.Airman of the YearSenior Airman Samuel Ellis, 33rd FWSenior Airman Jordan R. Peterson, 53rd WGSenior Airman Morgan

  • Team Eglin earns Air Force level awards

    Congratulations to the following 53rd Wing and 96th Test Wing Air Force level award winners:53rd Electronic Warfare GroupMaster Sgt. Jeramie Wade - EW SNCO of the yearDavid Barnette - EW intermediate civilian of the yearEW pod test team - EW team of the year96th Medical Group96th MDG - outstanding