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  • Team Eglin ensures wounded warriors welcome on base

    The introductory adaptive and rehabilitation camp and Warrior Games training held here April 13-22 required preparation, coordination and cooperation from several base agencies to insure both events' success.    The 96th Test Wing was contacted in December 2014 with support requests to host the

  • Career-ending injury leads Airman to new calling

    When a career-ending injury halted then-Staff Sgt. Daniel Crane's promising military career, he almost gave in to the anger and depression that threatened to overtake him.In 2012, Crane, assigned to the 736th Security Forces Squadron in Guam, had just completed a three-day security mission.  The

  • Eglin Airman participates in adaptive camp

    Like the aircraft he used to load and test bombs on before circumstances abruptly ended his career, a retired 96th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron Airman is a fighter.Two years after complications from a massive stroke forced Senior Airman Chris Fugitt to retire from the Air Force, his warrior spirit

  • An Airman's journey to Wounded Warrior mentorship

    Tech. Sgt. Ryan Delaney couldn't be happier to be a mentor for the introductory adaptive sports and rehabilitation camp that happened this week here.Delaney, a flight chief with the 412th Security Forces Squadron at Edwards AFB, Calif., helped prepare approximately 45 participants in the camp and

  • February, March Tots In Blue

    Congratulations to the following parents who welcomed their new arrivals while stationed here:It's a boyAydin Wayne, born Feb. 22 to Airman 1st Class Richard and Kyla VosburgKeegan Matthew, born March 6 to Staff Sgt. Matthew and Kristen McCoshamIt's a girlPaisley LeAnn, born Feb. 23 to Senior Airman

  • Marines involved in crash identified

    It is with a heavy heart that U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Special Operations Command formally announces the names of the seven Marines who died when a U.S. Army UH-60 Blackhawk Helicopter crashed near here at approximately 8:30 p.m. March 10, 2015.Dead are:Capt. Stanford H. Shaw, III, 31, from Basking