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  • Joint warfighters hone close air support skills at JRTC

    Army special forces and joint fires observers trained with Air Force joint terminal attack controllers and Navy fighter aircrews during a recent two-week Joint Readiness Training Center and Air Force Green Flag East exercise here with assistance from U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Fires

  • Eglin range tests B-1 tactics

    Members of the 53rd Wing tested the capabilities of B-1s here recently in an effort to better defend the aircraft for today's warfighters and prove the strength of new software systems. "The main purpose of our deployment out here is to conduct defensive threat reaction test to basically validate

  • Paying homage to Eglin namesake

    The hand-painted portrait that hangs in the main hall of building 1 depicts a stoic person immaculately dressed in military uniform, but few people know who he is and why his portrait graces the entrance to the Air Armament Center's administrative offices. The portrait is of Lt. Col. Frederick

  • New director appointed to 308th ARSW

    The 308th Armament Systems Wing appointed its new director, Randy Brown, Sept. 11 during a ceremony at the officers' club. "This was a long time coming to get Randy as the newest member of Team Eglin," said Maj. Gen. C.R. Davis, Air Armament Center commander, who presided over the ceremony. "This is

  • Ceremony set to transition SFW

    Plans are set to celebrate the success of a workhorse weapon in the Air Force arsenal. Government workers and contractors will come together Sept. 24 at the Air Armament Museum to commemorate the transition of the Sensor Fuzed Weapon from the program office here at Eglin AFB to the Ogden Air

  • 96th Air Base Wing history spans six decades

    From operational testing to strategic bombing, the 96th Air Base Wing has contributed greatly to our defense of freedom according to Clay McCutchan, historian for the Air Armament Center. The 96th stood up in the midst of World War II. In 1942, it was established as an operational training unit for

  • Eglin team awarded Theodore von Karman Award

    The 308th Armament System Wing's Laser Joint Direct Attack Munition Program team here received the 2009 Air Force Association's Theodore von Karman Award. The award is given for outstanding excellence to national defense in the field of science and engineering in aerospace. The 45-member team, part

  • JFIIT helps Army, AF train with Italian Air Force

    Joint fires experts from U.S. Joint Forces Command assisted Italian Air Force personnel in integrating operations with U.S. Army and Air Force assets during a recent two-week exercise at the National Training Center here. The exercise marked the first time that Italian warfighters have participated

  • Historic hangar showered in foam

    'Splish splash' King Hangar got a bath Sept. 3 when the 96th Civil Engineer Group completed its final foam test of the new fire suppression system designed to protect critical 46th Test Wing assets. The system, which has 24 foam generators suspended from the ceiling, released 110 gallons of the