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  • Eglin honors MLK Day as day of service

    The annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. observance ceremony was held at the Air Armament Museum Jan. 14.  The message for this year's event focused on service to community and building unity within the nation.Lt. Col. Sherrol James, 96th Medical Group chaplain, the guest speaker, delivered her

  • Local memorial set for Eglin's fallen Airman

    The Air Force Office of Special Investigations 9th Field Investigations Squadron invites base personnel to a memorial in honor of Special Agent (Maj.) Adrianna M. Vorderbruggen Jan. 21, at 1 p.m.The service is at the Soundside Club main ballroom, 107 Kissam St., Bldg. 90910 at Hurlburt Field.  It is

  • Test teams aim at new machine gun for Pave Hawk

    Arriving in the rain, an HH-60G Pave Hawk landed here Jan. 5 to begin testing the ballistic dispersion of a GAU-21 .50-caliber machine gun.The Pave Hawk will be here until Jan. 22 where the 412th Test Wing and 418th Flight Test Squadron are providing the facilities, range safety, photographic

  • Medical Group first to find bacteria unseen in humans

    The 96th Medical Group's laboratory provided the first-ever human-blood sample of a spirochete bacteria, known to cause tick-borne relapsing fever to be cultured at the Centers for Disease Control.The bacteria, borrelia turicatae, had previously only been cultured in animals, according to Maj. (Dr.)

  • Wingman Toolkit supports Comprehensive Airman Fitness

    Comprehensive Airman Fitness is built on the four domains of fitness -- physical, mental, social and spiritual. CAF is a top-level priority in the Air Force, and it is essential for individuals to be fit across all four domains.Gen. Mark Welsh III, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, said,

  • AFMC's Wingman Intervention program going strong

    More than two years after it was introduced, Air Force Materiel Command's Wingman Intervention program is still going strong."AFMC made a concerted effort to provide its Airmen with the skills and confidence they need to safely intervene when they see fellow Airmen entering into potentially harmful

  • Nine Eglin Airmen selected for Chief

    The Air Force selected 525 out of 2,521 eligible senior master sergeants for promotion to chief master sergeant for a 20.83 percent selection rate.The average promotion score for those selected was 529.21. Average time-in-grade was 3.21 years and time-in-service was 21.68 years. The average

  • Military, community break ground on state's largest solar projects

    The Navy and the Air Force broke ground with Gulf Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company, today at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, marking the start of construction for three large-scale solar electric generating facilities.Combined, these facilities will have approximately 1.5 million solar