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  • Local Exchange shoppers get satisfaction

    At 116 years of age, the Army and Air Force Exchange Service may not have "moves like Jagger," but its shoppers are getting plenty of satisfaction according to a recent American Customer Satisfaction Index survey. The ACSI was developed to provide information on satisfaction with the quality of

  • Football great to visit Eglin, speak on resiliency

     Football legend Herschel Walker is making a special trip here March 22 to talk to Team Eglin personnel about overcoming life's challenges."The former three-time All American and Heisman Trophy winner from the University of Georgia will speak to Airmen about being resilient," said Col. Colin Miller,

  • Bloody Saturday: Eglin Airman, team help save Soldier

    The memory of meeting 1st Lt. Nicholas Vogt for the first time will never leave Maj. Raynae Leslie's mind or her heart.Leslie, the 96th Medical Support Squadron's chief of clinical laboratory services here, was deployed last year to the Role 3 multi-national unit hospital at Kandahar Air Base,

  • AF expands drug testing program, includes prescriptions

    The Air Force and other military services will expand their drug testing to include testing for commonly abused prescription drugs beginning May 1.On Jan. 31, the Secretary of Defense gave a 90-day advance notice of the drug testing expansion which aims to counter the nation's growing epidemic and

  • Air control squadron to go as part of force structure changes

     Air Force officials released force structure changes and resulting manpower impacts from the new DoD strategic guidance and fiscal 2013 President's Budget Mar. 6. The fiscal 2013 President's Budget adjusts Air Force military end strength to 501,000, with net reductions of 3,900 Active Duty, 5,100

  • January, February Tots In Blue

    Congratulations to the following parents who welcomed their new arrivals while stationed here:It's a boySean Nicholas, Jr,, born Jan. 20 to Senior Airman Sean and Belinda SaundersLeonidas Adrian, born Jan. 21 to Sgt. Kyle and Christine SiglerRylan Thomas, born Jan. 24 to Senior Airman Adam and

  • Astronaut gives other-Earthly perspective at prayer breakfast

    After a 15 day journey logging 362 flight hours around Earth and a can of gummy worms, an Air Force astronaut was able to step back from ordinary life to capture the big picture.During Eglin's annual National Prayer Breakfast, Col. James Dutton shared a PowerPoint presentation of pictures of his