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  • Team Lean Challenge: HAWC provides healthy living tips

    Team Lean Challenge gives us an opportunity to live healthy by losing weight and building camaraderie with our teammates. There are many ways to help us lose weight, or just live healthy. The Health and Wellness Center offers various programs aimed at promoting weight loss. These include

  • Bird's Eye View: Century Circle coming together

    Throughout the week, you may have been among the group of cars following aircraft towards the West Gate. These aircraft were making their way to the new Century Circle display outside the gate. Thank you for your patience! The Century Circle project has been in the works for several years, and it is

  • Bird's Eye View: Cell phone headset use increases

    In early 2006, Air Force Materiel Command began enforcing a Department of Defense restriction on using cell phones on military installations without a hands-free device such as a Bluetooth or wired headset. This new policy was implemented for your safety and the safety of others. A University of

  • Driver distractions: don't be a statistic

    Driving is a serious responsibility that demands and deserves your full attention. Driver distractions may occur anytime or anywhere. Distractions contribute to one out of four accidents. This means there are 4,300 accidents every day resulting in 1.5 million accidents a year. A California Highway

  • Bird's Eye View: Today unlucky for some, great for junior force

    If black cats and broken mirrors frighten you, then you already know that today is Friday the 13th. Associated with bad luck and a string of movies starring a machete-wielding guy in a hockey mask, Friday the 13th is generally a pretty bad day for the superstitious. However, today is a great day for

  • Motorcycle safety should be top concern for riders

    As I travel around the base doing my day-to-day routine, I see people wearing short pants and shirts with short sleeves. With the increasing temperatures here in the desert, folks are starting to soak up those rays and get their tan. I don't have a problem with people wearing shorts, tank tops and

  • Bird's Eye View: Slow down, arrive alive

    One problem that continues to plague Edwards is speeding. Over the past several weeks, you may have noticed some of our electronic speed indicator signs around the base. These devices not only display your vehicle's speed, but they also show the road's speed limit above the electronic display. When

  • Bird's Eye View: Space shuttle boosts Edwards' podcasts

    One week ago, the Space Shuttle Atlantis landed on runway 22. With all the support the base provides the shuttle program, a landing becomes a very exciting time for us. It also puts Edwards under the microscope in terms of the public interest in our base. Nowhere was this more apparent than the

  • Safety office provides amusement park safety tips

    Schools are out, and the kids are ready to experience the summer fun. People are making plans to make trips to various places they want to go. Southern California boasts a variety of theme parks people can go visit including Disneyland, Legoland, Knott's Berry Farm and Six Flags Magic

  • Edwards' fire department offers July 4th safety tips

    The Fourth of July is a time when family and friends gather to enjoy barbecues, picnics and fireworks displays. Unfortunately, it is also a time when people will be injured and property destroyed by the same fireworks that make this holiday festive. In California, only the "safe and sane" types of