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  • AFRL teams compete to solve real-world problems

    Two teams of junior force personnel drawn from across Air Force Materiel Command are hard at work on the Air Force Research Laboratory's 7th annual Commander's Challenge, a six-month competition during which teams focus on developing a viable technology solution to a pressing, real-world warfighter

  • Merchant meets with base leadership for DUI solutions

    "We're here to identify solutions to our DUI situation," Maj. Gen. Kenneth Merchant said to a room of more than 70 enlisted and officer leadership from across the base May 11.The meeting brought together Eglin's joint-service leadership after two more driving under the influence arrests over the

  • New guide helps Airmen, families navigate social media

    Airmen and families have a new resource at their fingertips with the recent release of an updated and revised social media guide, shown here, by the Air Force Public Affairs Agency in San Antonio, Texas. The guide features sections geared toward all Total Force members and their families as well as

  • Eglin Club discounts discontinued at non-club facilities

    The Air Force Materiel Command Member First Plus program was discontinued here, as of May 1.This change means Eglin's club members will no longer receive discounts at non-club facilities such as the bowling alley, golf course and barbershop. The termination of the benefit was a result of the 96th

  • AFRL civilian advocate for determination, diversity

    Lloyd Reshard grew up as a person of meager means but worked his way up to become the first and only African-American branch chief of the Air Force Research Laboratory Munitions Division here. As chief, he's managed a $150 million budget of one of the largest branches and was responsible for

  • Warnings heeded at safety rally saved lives

    Dress for the crash, not for the ride.That's one of the few things Staff Sgt Gregory Todd, of the 96th Communications Squadron, said he remembers of his lucky Friday, April 13.After attending Eglin's annual motorcycle safety rally, Todd found himself in the very situation he'd just heard discussed.

  • DUI: know the consequences

    The increase in driving under the influence of alcohol incidents this year, compared to those during the same time last year, has prompted leadership to remind Eglin's Airmen of the consequences of a DUI.Maj. John Batka, Eglin's Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program and Treatment program manager, monitors

  • AFMC book commemorates command's 20th anniversary

    Air Force Materiel Command officials have released the command's limited-edition anniversary book, highlighting AFMC's 20 years of providing expeditionary capabilities to the warfighter.The release of this commemorative book, entitled 'Air Force Materiel Command: 20 Years of Warfighter Support,'