Edwards AFB News

  • Orange Flag executes largest all-domain test focused on infrared spectrum

    Orange Flag, Air Force Test Center’s all-domain, large force test series focused on advanced technology, kill-web integration and analysis, returned for its second iteration this year at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. June 23. Forty-one airborne participants used the R-2508 Range and Sea Test Range

  • Ordinary Heroes: Staff Sgt Jesse Mathieu, Explosive Ordnance Disposal

    It was a nasty looking rig as pressure plates go. The dark and heavy coiled springs cornering and connecting the wooden planks together belied the deadliness of the gadget, giving thoughts more to a pair of 1950s spring shoes from Wham-O. The camouflaged anti-personnel buttons protruding from the

  • ORE focuses on convoy operations, deployment line processing

    Team Edwards performed its Operational Readiness Exercise June 18 through 21. This was Edwards' first ORE since the Operational Readiness Inspection in March."Our primary focus is successfully passing the Phase I retest in July," said Lt. Col. Greg Ahlquist, the installation Inspector General. "We

  • Original T-34 visits Edwards 60 years after service

    An original production Beechcraft T-34 "Mentor" returned to Edwards Oct. 17 for a one-day visit 60 years after it was delivered to Edwards AFB for the T-34 flight test program. The G-11 model was one of three T-34's that came to Edwards in Oct. 1953 for acceptance testing. "As a trainer coming into

  • OSHA changes: Material Safety Data Sheets going away

    Safety data sheets are coming! Coming to replace Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) and improve unit understanding of the hazards associated with chemicals in the workplace.If you currently work in a workplace that uses hazardous chemicals governed by a Hazard Communication (HAZCOM) Program, there

  • OSI captures most wanted AF fugitive

    On June 6, 2018, Air Force Office of Special Investigations Detachment 303 Special Agents at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., apprehended Air Force fugitive Capt. William Howard Hughes, Jr. at his California residence without incident. On June 5, during a passport fraud investigation, the U.S.

  • OSI Det. 111 Foreign Travel Brief

    Office of Special Investigations, Detachment 111, reminds personnel at Edwards Air Force Base, California to obtain a Foreign Travel Brief prior to traveling overseas, if necessary.