Edwards AFB News

  • Outdoor Rec provides excursions, arsenal for summer activities

    Outdoor Recreation provides tools and excursions for every season of the year, from camping, snowboarding and surfing, to parasailing, indoor skydiving and much more.  As a resource to the base, ODR provides coolers, tents, chairs, fishing poles and other camping equipment."We've got just about

  • Outdoor Recreation offers 'something for everyone'

    Outdoor Recreation director Josh Soldan says that ODR is a "one-stop shop" for recreational activities."We have 23 different areas that fall under Outdoor Rec. including paintball, stables, pools, disc golf, adventure programs, equipment rentals and the lemon lot," said Soldan. "We have something

  • Outgoing 461st FLTS commander selected for astronaut training

    Lt. Col. Raja Chari has been selected by NASA to join the 2017 Astronaut Candidate Class. He will report for duty this August. Chari relinquishes command of the 461st Flight Test Squadron June 9 where he oversaw developmental testing of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter for the past couple of years.

  • Outgoing director of research at TPS shapes legacy via X-62A VISTA

    On Sept. 22, 2023, Dr. Malcolm Christopher Cotting became only the eighth honorary graduate in the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School’s history. Cotting is leaving the school after a 13-year stay, but not without leaving a legacy that pushes the envelope of flight test to a new plane – a

  • Oval Studios offers portraits, photography classes

    Oval Studios, located next to Subway in the Desert Mall in the housing area at Bldg. 7210, 1100 Kincheloe Ave., offers customized portraits for the entire family and is now offering those budding photographers classes on how to use digital SLR cameras.Generally, photography classes are held the

  • Owners bringing pets into Germany will pay new fee starting Feb. 1

    Members of the U.S. forces community who bring their pets along when they arrive in Germany for assignment will be charged a fee by German authorities beginning Feb. 1.The fee will be charged during arrivals at Ramstein Air Base and Frankfurt International Airport.At Ramstein an examination fee of

  • PA staff takes awards in 2008 AFMC Media Contest

    Air Force Materiel Command released results from the 2008 AFMC Media Contest Feb. 3, honoring three members of the 95th Air base Wing Public Affairs office with individual awards. "When I received the results Tuesday, I immediately went to personally congratulate each of them," said Mike Strickler,

  • PACE to offer free professionalism presentations April 26 - 28

    In the coming months, Air Force Materiel Command bases will host free presentations of "Professionalism - Enhancing Human Capital" from the Profession of Arms Center of Excellence.As part of PACE's Character and Leadership initiative, "Professionalism - Enhancing Human Capital" examines how