Edwards AFB News

  • Price matching saves Edwards AFB Exchange shoppers millions

    Whether shopping in stores or online, Airmen, retirees and their families get the lowest price at the Edwards Air Force Base Exchange. In fact, Edwards AFB shoppers who price matched in 2013 at the Exchange saved $46,156.00.At brick-and-mortar locations, price differences of $10 or less are matched

  • PRIME Students Sacrifice Summer to Study STEM

    The 412th Test Wing’s STEM program has wrapped up another successful year of its PRIME outreach program. PRIME, short for Promoting Relevance and Interest in Mathematical Experiences, is a four-week summer math class specially designed to empower incoming freshmen by strengthening their math skills

  • Privatized housing on horizon for Edwards

    Moving toward the privatization of military family housing, Edwards recently showcased the base's housing area for several home developers.  The effort is part of an Air Force initiative to privatize all military housing in the continental United States. "There are only 20 bases  Air Force wide that

  • Prizes, pizza, close out Base Library Summer Reading Program

    With Edwards AFB's schools beginning Aug. 18, the Edwards Base Library ended this year's Base Library Summer Reading Program with a grand finale Aug. 15.Children received a prize for every 10 books they read, up to 100 books. Those who completed all 100 books during the program were entered into a

  • Professional development

    The May 2017 First Term Airman’s Center class poses for a group photo on the rooftop patio area of Club Muroc May 26.  FTAC is a five-day course that provides informative briefings and training for newly assigned Airmen who have just arrived at their first permanent duty station. Upon completion of

  • Professional development

    The March 2017 First Term Airman’s Center class poses for a group photo on the rooftop patio area of Club Muroc March 17.  FTAC is a five-day course that provides informative briefings and training for newly assigned Airmen who have just arrived at their first permanent duty station.  Upon

  • Professional Maintenance Certificate Program will hold roadshow Jan. 18

    The 412th Maintenance Group's Training Division will host a roadshow to introduce a new maintenance certification program on Jan. 18 at the Conference Center in the Galaxy Room from 10 to 11 a.m.The roadshhow will introduce attendees to the new Air Force Materiel Command certification program that

  • Professionally 'Fit to Fight'

    Against all odds and popular opinion, the determined man defeated the warrior-giant with the shot of a single stone. Standing over the giant Goliath in victory, the much smaller David continues to embody the timeless axiom that size is not everything.For Master Sgt. Christopher Easter, an