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  • Jackson Guard boss earns top Air Force honors

    Steve Seiber's life-long passion for the outdoors has resulted in his being named "Best in the Air Force."Mr. Seiber, the chief of Eglin's Natural Resources Management section, better known as Jackson Guard, has been named the recipient of the Gen. Thomas D. White Natural Resources Conservation

  • Service calls increase as cold weather sets in

    The cold weather snap has people shivering and workers scrambling to keep the base's infrastructure in good operating order.Responsible for the calls of power out or no heat is the 796th Civil Engineer Squadron's Service Call section. Roger Nelson is one of three work controllers answering more than

  • 53rd unit takes ACC Installation Excellence Award

    The 28th Test and Evaluation Squadron's Agile Combat Support Division works to save time, money and, most importantly, the lives of today's warfighters. The work in the division recently garnered special recognition at the command level. The group received a Commander in Chief's Annual Award for

  • Expo energizes commitment to reduce

    Col. Bruce McClintock, 96th Air Base Wing commander, turned up the heat at Eglin's Energy Expo Oct. 21 without ever touching a thermostat. Doing his best "Speed Racer" imitation, Colonel McClintock sidled into the Eglin Main Exchange parking lot driving a brand-new, all-electric, 'Arrest-Me Red,'

  • Small energy surveys lead to big energy savings at Eglin

    October is Energy Awareness month and Team Eglin facility managers are leading the effort to increase energy awareness on base. Earlier this month, Master Sgt. Myeshia Lee, 96th Air Base Wing staff, assisted representatives from the 96th Civil Engineer Group's Energy Management Center and Gulf Power

  • Summer Heat Brings Coliforms to the Drinking Water

    One of the responsibilities of the 96th Medical Group's Bioenvironmental Engineering Flight is routine monitoring of the base's drinking water to ensure it meets health standards. In August, two routine compliance samples at both the Eglin Main Base and Eglin West/Housing Public Water Systems (Water

  • Eglin rangers hold annual Mass Casualty exercise

    Four consecutive horrific "accidents" left bloody bodies of 6th Ranger Training Battalion Soldiers strewn all over the Eglin ranges Oct 1. That was just part of the 6 RTB's annual mass casualty exercise to examine how effective the battalion responds as a group and how well it communicates and works

  • 'Reach Out! Raise Hope!' theme to 2009 Combined Federal Campaign

    There are more than 470 families in the Fort Walton Beach area without a place to live. Many of them live in cars and wash in public restrooms. Maybe it's someone from church or the cashier working at the local grocery store. No matter who it is, help is needed. Circumstances like these are examples