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  • Wheel Wizards keep Eglin’s F-35s rolling

    Whether your landing style is silky smooth or resembles an intense carrier landing the “Wheel Wizards” of the 33rd Maintenance Squadron Wheel and Tire Shop are ready where the rubber meets the road.Since the beginning of 2016 the Airmen and Sailors of the 33rd MXS Wheel and Tire Shop have built more

  • Air Force JROTC partners up with AFA for StellarXplorer competition

    The Air Force Association is striving to increase participation in their third annual StellarXplorers competition this tear by teaming up with the Air Force Junior Reserves Officer Training Corps headquarters. The new partnership will introduce the event to almost four times as many students

  • Around the Air Force: June 21

    In this look around the Air Force, Gen. David Goldfein testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee on his nomination for Air Force chief of staff, and the new Blended Retirement System gives Airmen more retirement options.

  • A dedicated father, Airman laid to rest

    Two months after the tragic and sudden passing of Lt. Col. William “Bill” Schroeder, the U.S. Air Force Honor Guard laid him to rest with full military honors June 16, at the Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia.More than 100 family members, teammates and service members attended the service to

  • AETC officials announce 2016 Outstanding Airmen of the Year

    Air Education and Training Command senior leaders recognized nine Airmen selected as the command’s 2016 Outstanding Airmen of the Year, June 16.The award distinguishes AETC’s enlisted Airmen for their leadership, job performance, community involvement and personal achievements. “These Airmen are an

  • 42nd Army surgeon general lauds medical graduates

    The 42nd Army surgeon general had high praise for the nearly 250 medical and allied health graduates being honored at the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium awards and graduation ceremony June 10 in downtown San Antonio.

  • Khobar Towers victim honored at F-15 rededication

    A rededication ceremony took place June 14, 2016, atMemorial Park in DeBary, Fla., to celebrate the refurbishing of an F-15 Eaglestatic display in honor of Airman 1st Class Brian McVeigh.McVeigh was a native of DeBary who was killed in the KhobarTowers terrorist attack June 25, 1996, while deployed

  • Spatial disorientation trainer reaches one year milestone

    For the past year, the student pilots attending the 80th Flying Training Wing’s Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training program at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, have been using the GYRO Integrated Physiological Trainer II to get hands-on, realistic spatial disorientation training.

  • Coping with stress through healthy thinking

    Stress. Even mention of the word can increase anxiety for some. Everyone deals with stress differently, but how you cope with daily stressors can have great impacts on your quality of life and overall health.Stress is actually the body’s response to any demand, including change. According to the