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  • Mind Games: Airmen battle bulge with mental prowess

    As the holidays begin, people have a tendency to get lost in the season and indulge in festivities. Often this means packing on the pounds. Even as the holiday season gets into full swing, the new year brings with it a new set of strict physical fitness standards for the Air Force.Revisions to the

  • 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

  • Improving coalition combat ID exercise wraps up

    The U.S. Joint Forces Command's exercise designed to examine advanced combat identification technologies that could reduce the risk of fratricide on future battlefields has completed its final missions here and at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C. Bold Quest 09 was a U.S. Joint Forces

  • AAC awarded for excellence

    The Air Armament Center was recently awarded the Air Force Organizational Excellence Award for its ability to provide war-winning capabilities to Combat Air Forces to meet national security objectives. The Air Force Organizational Excellence award recognizes the achievements and accomplishments of

  • Skull wars commence on Halloween eve

    Skull Wars took to the skies with more than 30 aircraft Oct. 30 as Eglin's test community waged a mock war to determine the effectiveness of the Air Force's current capabilities and technology. The 85th Test and Evaluations Squadron hosted the exercise using aircraft on loan from the 40th Flight

  • JASSM achieves success in reliability flight tests

    The Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile, or JASSM, successfully completed Lot 7 Reliability Assessment Program flight tests with a record of 15 successes out of 16 flights as officially scored by the independent test data scoring board Oct. 22. The tests were conducted by the U.S. Air Force at

  • Group wins Department of Defense award

    The 708th Armament Systems Group was recently recognized for unprecedented acquisition management success with their selection by the Department of Defense as the winner of 2009 David Packard Excellence in Acquisition Award. The award singles out the group as the best acquisition team in the Air

  • ACC commander visits 53rd, Eglin

    Eglin's contributions to the warfighter are clear and apparent to those who live and work within its reach, but Oct. 13 the Air Combat Command commander got a first-hand look at just how vast the base's role is in today's fight. Gen. William Fraser, Air Combat Command commander, spent the entire day

  • Air Force science, technology awards highlight 53rd Wing talent

    Six scientists and engineers from the 53rd Wing captured service level awards at the Air Force Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Awards banquet at the Air Force Academy recently. "The 53rd Wing stands out as a leader of technical excellence by winning six Air Force level awards, and I

  • 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