Edwards AFB News

  • 95th CG goes phishing at Edwards

    Each day, thousands of malicious e-mails are sent to users across the Air Force by computer hackers and adversaries looking for classified or personal information. As bait, they disguise themselves as trusted organizations requiring immediate information with dire consequences for those who don't

  • Air Force returns enlisted high year of tenure to standards

    Air Force manpower and personnel officials announced Jan. 27 a return of enlisted high year of tenure limits to their pre-2003 levels."We've considered returning HYT limits to their normal levels for several years. Now that our Air Force end strength is stabilizing, it is an appropriate time to

  • H1N1 vaccine-- come get it!

    The Edwards' Immunizations Clinic is now offering the H1N1 vaccine to everyone at Edwards. If you have not yet received this vaccine, please stop by the Immunizations Clinic. The Immunizations clinic is a walk-in clinic with hours on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday from  7:30 a.m. to 4:30

  • AFRL, Academy collaborate on space project

    Cadets from the United States Air Force Academy and members of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Edwards conducted operational testing on the satellite dubbed FalconSAT-5 here Jan. 11 to 22. According to a U.S. Air Force Academy Department of Astronautics press release, the primary mission of the

  • NASA Airborne radar to study quake faults in Haiti, Dominican Republic

    In response to the disaster in Haiti Jan. 12, NASA has added a series of science overflights of earthquake faults in Haiti and the Dominican Republic on the island of Hispaniola to a previously scheduled three-week airborne radar campaign to Central America.NASA's Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle

  • Edwards Tax Center opens to provide free tax services to base personnel

    After saving more than 500 Airmen an excess of $94 thousand in filing fees and garnering them more than $1 million in returns for the 2008 tax season, the Edwards Tax Center reopens for the 2009 tax season.The tax center, located at 1100 Kincheloe Avenue (next door to the Children's library), has

  • AAFES SEA visits Edwards

    The Army and Air Force Exchange Service senior enlisted advisor to the commanding general of AAFES, visited Edwards from Jan. 19 to the 22.During his time at Edwards AFB, Chief Master Sgt. Jeffry Helm, AAFES met with wing leadership, customers and toured and inspected AAFES facilities. "Part of my

  • Edwards Intramural Basketball 2009-10 season standings

    Editor's note: Standings posted online each Wednesday and in the paper each Friday reflect the games from the previous week. Games take place Monday through Thursday with the exception of down days and holidays. Three games are played each night at 5:30, 6:30 and 7:30 p.m. 95th Force Support

  • New road offers safe transportation, quicker route

    Team Edwards celebrated the opening of the new Ammo Road, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Jan. 16."Besides the obvious danger of transporting live munitions, the traffic alone was dangerous -- going 10 miles per hour on 55 miles per hour roadway," said Airman 1st Class Jonathan Ethier, 412th

  • Team Edwards honors Martin Luther King Jr. with march, speech

    Team Edwards honored the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a walk from 95th Air Base Wing Headquarters to Chapel 1, where a ceremony was held in honor of Dr. King Jan. 14.Maj. Gen. David Eichhorn, Air Force Flight Test Center commander and Col. Jerry Gandy, 95th Air Base Wing commander, led