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  • Eat2Live: Eglin's Healthy Weight Program

    Eglin Hospital introduced a new program called Eat2Live August 26. Eat2Live is a collaboration between Health Promotion, Nutritional Medicine and behavioral health specialists.  These experts combined their knowledge to provide instruction on weight management.To make up the new comprehensive weight

  • 'Feds Feed Families' campaign underway

    The annual "Feds Feed Families" food drive campaign is underway here with the first large donation drop off event called "Fill the Truck" scheduled for Aug. 29-30 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the commissary.The goal of the event is to fill a base fire truck with food donations over the two-day

  • EOD updates training to increase retention, improve readiness

    The explosive ordnance disposal division of the Air Force Civil Engineer Center's Readiness Directorate here, in collaboration with Air Education and Training Command, is refining and upgrading the curriculum of three courses in order to produce more EOD Airmen, and ensure balanced mission

  • Deployed chapel assistant supports TAAC-Air in Afghanistan

    "I love being a chaplain. I find great fulfillment in helping people."That's what Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Bryan Hochhalter, deployed here from the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, said about his job at the 438th Air Expeditionary Wing / Train, Advise, Assist Command-Air

  • More than 240 Airmen selected for staff sergeant

    Air Force officials selected 13,269 of 39,260 eligible senior airmen to staff sergeant for a selection rate of 33.8 percent.  The average score for those selected was 399.52, with an average time in grade of 2.22 years and time in service of 4.68, respectively.  Weighted factor averages included the

  • Welcome to Team Eglin: newcomers orientation streamlined

    The Newcomers orientation here has been streamlined from six hours to four, but the information it provides to new Team Eglin members still contributes to a successful duty assignment."The program gives newly assigned Airmen a positive jump start on what this base's mission is and how they can

  • AF Small Business Programs director visits Eglin

    Mark Teskey, Air Force Director of Small Business Programs, visited here July 27 to highlight the importance of driving small business competition and the continuous development of the local industrial base.Teskey met with leadership from the 96th Test Wing; Small Business Office; the Air Force

  • Deployment lessons learned moves F-16 sofware upgrade forward

    For two weeks in June, Eglin units, the 40th Flight Test Squadron and 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron, tested the M7 F-16 Fighting Falcon software upgrade over the wilds of Alaska in the joint exercise known as Northern Edge.Upon returning from the large-scale deployment, the squadrons' Airmen

  • Airman honored as one of 2015's outstanding Airmen of the year

    Staff Sgt. Kurtis Harrison, 96th Communications Squadron Command, Control, Communications and Computer Systems Project Manager, was recognized as one of the Air Force's 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year, one of the top-level honors an Airman can receive."This recognition is so humbling," said

  • Eglin passenger terminal services military, civilian flyers

    The Eglin passenger terminal, operated by the 96th Logistics Readiness Squadron's Air Operations section, provides air travel for eligible passengers on official travel and space available travel.The terminal operates here and at Duke Field, depending on where aircraft arrive or depart from,