• Parks Photo Lab no longer available for multimedia services

    Due to decreased Fiscal Year 2012 and beyond budgets, the 96th Test Wing can no longer fund multimedia services through the Parks Photographic Laboratory Multimedia contract. The 96th TW is undergoing a de-scope to support Test Wing mission-only services (e.g., airborne camera, test video/still

  • Eglin to celebrate AF's 64th with BBQ

    Team Eglin is invited to the base's Air Force birthday celebration Sept. 16 at the Bayview Club at 3 p.m. Maj Gen Merchant, the installation's senior Airman, will assist Eglin's junior Airman in cutting an Air Force birthday cake. Afterward, is a First Friday Air Force Birthday barbecue at 4 p.m.

  • Iraqi aircraft maintainers learn English

    For Iraqi aircraft maintainers at Kirkuk Regional Air Base, comprehension of the English language is a problem they face every day. All of their technical manuals are written in English, the internationally recognized language of aviation.To combat this issue, Maj. Mark Gray, the 321st Air

  • Colonel shoots to win

    Colonel Mark Hays, the Armament Directorate deputy director, recently won three pistol shooting awards at two national level events.Hays, a member of the Air Force National Pistol Team since December 1998, won the 2011 High Air Force competitor at the 51st Inter Service Pistol Championships at Fort

  • WEG hosts Bold Tigers for Combat Archer

    More than 130 members from the 391st Fighter Squadron, "Bold Tigers", along with eight F-15E Strike Eagles, participated in Combat Archer here, July 8 to 22.The exercise is an air-to-air Weapons System Evaluation Program conducted by the 53rd Weapons Evaluation Group to test the total air-to-air

  • Airmen selected for promotion

    Air Force officials here selected 11,337 of 26,549 eligible senior airman for promotion to staff sergeant for a selection rate of 42.70 percent.The average score for those selected was 275.56, with an average time in grade of 1.88 years and an average time in service of 4.44 years. The average score