Edwards AFB News

  • Changes in sick call hours

    Attention to all active duty members on FLY status: Effective Sept. 1, the 412th Medical Group Flight Medicine Clinic no longer has sick call hours. Instead, the clinic has created same day appointments for those active duty members on FLY status that require acute care or return to fly/controller

  • Changes to TRICARE Prime Service Areas

    Prime Service Areas are geographic areas where TRICARE Prime is offered. These PSAs were created to ensure the medical readiness of the active duty force by augmenting the capability of military hospitals and clinics. Effective Oct. 1, 2013, TRICARE Prime will no longer be available to beneficiaries

  • Channel 6 down until further notice

    Due to equipment failure the Edwards Air Force Base Commander's Access Channel (CAC 6) will not be available until further notice. Repairs are not scheduled at this time.For breaking news and information please refer to one of the following sources:Base wide e-mailStraight Talk Line: 277-2345Edwards

  • Chapel staff reads King's words in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day

    This year, to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the chapel staff decided to try something new Jan. 15. Instead of a march or a chapel service, readers and vocalists took their places throughout the lobby of Bldg. 3000 and remembered many of the words that Reverend King once spoke."For many of us

  • Chapel streams Global Leadership Summit

    Airman Ernest Vang, 412th Communications Squadron, Cyber Operations, wants to be a good leader. The 2015 Global Leadership Summit, held Aug. 6-7, gave him an opportunity to learn how to do just that. The conference is broadcasted live from Willow Creek Church's campus near Chicago to over 375

  • Chapel teaches base youth about 'service before self'

    This August more than 20 young people from Edwards will join the more than 25,000 "Youth With A Mission."The Edge, the Edwards Chapel youth group, is traveling to Tijuana, Mexico Aug. 7 through the 16 to participate in the Youth With A Mission's Los Angeles/Tijuana summer program. Youth With A

  • Chaplain supports security forces through ‘ministry of presence’

    For Chaplain (Capt.) Richardson Honore, being where “the rubber hits the road,” means being out in the field with the 412th Security Forces Squadron’s Airmen. To him, being visible out at the gates or at training events at Edwards Air Force Base, California, with the Airmen helps facilitate a more

  • Chari takes over JSF test squadron

    Lt. Col. Raja Chari (right) accepts the 461st Flight Test Squadron guidon from former 412th Operations Group commander, Col. Rodney Todaro, during the squadron's change of command ceremony June 26. Chari assumed command from Lt. Col. Andrew Allen. The 461st FLTS conducts developmental testing for

  • Chief Air Force scientist visits TPS

    Dr. Mica Endsley, chief scientist of the Air Force, made a special stop to the U.S.A.F. Test Pilot School March 25 during a trip to the West Coast. Endsley was new to the Department of Defense when she was selected as chief scientist in 2013. During her private sector career, she became one of the