Edwards AFB News

  • Vehicle accident stops West Gate traffic

    A single car roll-over accident has occurred just outside Edwards West Gate on Rosamond Blvd. According to the Edwards Command Post traffic is not moving through the gate at this time. Cleanup of the accident is expected to be completed by 1640. Team Edwards is encouraged to use either the South or

  • 9/11 – Former Air Force surgeon recalls Pentagon post-attack response

    Scores of people were injured, trapped. Before he made his way to the triage area where medics from all services would gather to treat and send off victims in ambulances, the senior Air Force medic waded through fire, smoke and chest-high debris looking for victims inside the Pentagon. "The clock

  • Early PT challenge spurs Edwards chaplain to make AFMC marathon team

    There are two choices an Airman can make after failing a physical training test: remain subpar or improve. For Capt. Joshua Stoley, failing his very first Air Force PT test served as motivation to change his life.Stoley, 95th Air Base Wing protestant chaplain, went from failing to meet the

  • AFFTC vice commander retires

    After 25 years of service, Col. Stephen O'Connor, Air Force Flight Test Center vice commander, called it a career and received a retirement sendoff Sept. 1. A ceremony took place at Hangar 1207 where the colonel‟s Air Force career took major turn toward test after he graduated from the U.S. Air

  • Air Force leaders issue Labor Day message

    Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz and Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force James Roy send the following Labor Day message to the Airmen of the U.S. Air Force and their families:Labor Day is a distinctly American holiday, created by workers to pay

  • C-17 airdrop sets record, completes next step for Ares I program

    Though Edwards, along with the rest of the nation, bid farewell to the space shuttle mission, the 418th Flight Test Squadron and NASA took another step toward the future of America's space program and set a record doing it. An 85,000-pound jumbo drop test vehicle was extracted out of a C-17A at

  • School liaison officer eases transition to Edwards for parents, children

    Education systems from across the country and around the world can take vastly different approaches to the same end - educating children. That can make it really rough on the students transitioning to schools here in the high desert.But Team Edwards has an answer to ease that transition, and her

  • Airman Leadership School Class 2011-F graduates 19 senior airmen

    Nineteen senior airmen took a big step in their Air Force careers by graduating from Edwards' Airman Leadership School Class 2011-F.Congratulations to the following Airmen:Senior Airman Diana Jasso, 95th Security Forces Squadron (John L. Levitow Award)Senior Airman Clayton Ilagan, 452nd Force