Sept. 9, 2011 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
Sept. 8, 2011 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
Sept. 8, 2011 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
Sept. 7, 2011 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
Sept. 7, 2011 Flu shots at Edwards to be available for servicemembers and families, civilian workers This year, flu vaccine will be made available to the civilian workforce in addition to active-duty personnel and their family members for both Edwards AFB and Air Force Materiel Command. Given the negative impact of the flu on workforce health and workplace productivity, AFMC Commander Gen. Donald
Sept. 1, 2011 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
Aug. 31, 2011 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
Aug. 31, 2011 60 years of service at Edwards and still going - library tech has seen it all At 79 Patricia Henrich sometimes gets teased by co-workers about being old, but when they see her running down the halls in Bldg. 1600 they may want to recant.Henrich currently serves the 412th Maintenance Group as a library technician, but during her 60 years of service at Edwards, she's held more
Aug. 31, 2011 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
Aug. 31, 2011 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