• Commissary produces scholarship winners

    Eglin's Commissary director, Luana Harris, announced the willers of the Defense Commissary Agency's annual scholarship program.  The winner of a $1,500 scholarship are Lauren Halbert, Niceville; Whitney Schmieder, Fort Walton Beach; Brianna Bikker and Thomas Reho, Niceville and  Patrick Fitzgerald,

  • Air Force transitions from NSPS to GS

    Most Air Force civilians under the National Security Personnel System will convert to the General Schedule by the end of this fiscal year in support of the Department of Defense goal to convert out as quickly as possible. This conversion out of NSPS was mandated by the Fiscal 2010 National Defense

  • Protocol civilian retires, serves 25 years here

    As Eglin celebrates its 75th anniversary, leadership took some time to honor the contributions of one civilian who was here a third of that time span.On May 29, Dave Miller, Air Armament Center deputy chief of Protocol will retire and receive the Outstanding Civilian Career Service Award in

  • Eglin preparing for oil impacts

    Along with all the communities bordering the Gulf of Mexico, Eglin is hard at work preparing for potential impacts associated with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill."No one knows for certain how we will be impacted, or even if we will, but we're going through all the possibilities to ensure we're

  • Bear necessities for Eglin residents

    Eglin military family housing residents may start getting unannounced visitors trying to dig through their trash soon. As the days become hot and dry, the Florida black bear will occasionally wander into residential neighborhoods looking for a free meal."We would just like to remind people that

  • Five graduate Physicians Assistant program through Eglin

    "The challenges are many and varied, from taking exams and writing papers to learning how to suture and use a scalpel."That's how newly commissioned 1st Lt. Nathan Stafford described the just-completed the Interservice Physicians Assistant Program here. He became an officer in the Air Force upon his