May 15, 2018 Air Force transitions to a single combat uniform Air Force leaders announced the service will move to a single combat utility uniform, adopting the Operational Camouflage Pattern, or OCP, already in use by the Army and Airmen in combat zones and in certain jobs across the Air Force.
May 15, 2018 Starting 2018 on a high note The 412th Test Wing held its 2018 first quarter awards ceremony in the base theater May 3. Top performers were announced and brought up stage in front of a cheering audience to be handed their award by Col. Jason Schott, 412th Test Wing vice commander, and Chief Master Sgt. Roosevelt Jones, 412th TW
May 14, 2018 Edwards Air Force Base engineers search for future innovators Companies from all innovative disciplines often send engineers to career fairs all over the nation to search for future go-getters. The Air Force test mission is no different. Two aerospace engineers, Lauren Kruszewski and Bryce Milnes, from the 773rd Structures Flight, travel to multiple career
May 9, 2018 This week in Edwards history On May 10, 1972, Fairchild Republic’s YA-10A Thunderbolt II made its first flight, flown by company chief test pilot Howard “Sam” Nelson. The twin-engine, twin-tailed ground attack aircraft was designed around the GAU-8 Avenger 30 mm rotary cannon.
May 9, 2018 STARBASE is hiring Edwards AFB is now hiring government civilian positions for its STARBASE program.The base has openings for two teachers and one director.For more information, email Maj. Yvette Bivins at Yvette.bivins@us.af.mil or call 661-277-6323. The Department of Defense's STARBASE is a premier educational
May 8, 2018 Civil engineers working to give Edwards bright future The 412th Civil Engineering Group is in phase two of a base-wide, major lighting upgrade, which replaces inefficient fluorescent lighting with new LED lighting complete with motion sensors and programmable controls. Each phase will take about a year to complete. “In California the average home uses
May 7, 2018 412th SFS to hold Police Week events May 14-18 Team Edwards and the 412th Security Forces Squadron will observe National Police Week with a slate of events May 14-18. Police Week is a time designated to remember and celebrate past and present civilian and military law enforcement officers, as well as the survivors of those who make the
May 1, 2018 This week in Edwards history On April 30, 1966, Air Force Flight Test Center test pilot Col. Joseph F. Cotton saved XB-70 Valkyrie #2 from destruction following an in-flight emergency in which the landing gear failed to lower into position. He crawled to a relay box containing two malfunctioning terminals and short-circuited
May 1, 2018 AFMC Personnel Programs Division hosts first command EEO symposium Seventy-five Air Force employees from across Air Force Materiel Command convened for the inaugural AFMC Equal Employment Opportunity Symposium held April 3-5 at the Wright Brothers Institute’s downtown location.Attendees from Tinker, Robins, Hill, Eglin, Edwards, Hanscom, and Wright-Patterson Air
April 30, 2018 Edwards to recognize Earth Day May 3 Plastic, a word coined by Leo Baekeland in 1907 to describe a malleable and/or moldable material of semi- or fully synthetic compounds, is one of 19th century’s miraculous discoveries. However, it is the overabundance of products composed of this material that has become the bane for the Earth Day