Edwards AFB News

  • Team Edwards preps for no notice inspections with ORE

    Edwards Inspector General and Plans and Programs staff agencies ensured the readiness of all units across the installation with exercise bomb threats, heightened security levels and building evacuations June 22 - 24. "Just like any exercise, we  are preparing for real life situations," said David

  • Youth baseball team loses tournament, comes home winners

    A run for a Little League Division 51 championship came to an end for the Edwards Mets Majors baseball team June 19. Comprised of children between the ages of 10 and 12 years old, the team traveled to California City and lost a heartbreaker in extra innings to the higher seeded California City team.

  • Theater to show new Transformers movie

    June 27, the Base Theater will show a free screening of the recently released Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie at 6 p.m. Parts of the movie were filmed here and several of Edwards personnel may appear in the sequel. Theater doors will open at 4 p.m. for open seating. People are asked to

  • TRICARE and Dependent Parents

    The extent of TRICARE coverage isn't limited to spouses and children. In some cases, it also covers family members, such as dependent parents and parents-in-law. The process to register your parents or parents-in-law as dependents varies by military branch.  After a dependant parent's dependent

  • Base residents must protect both pets and predators

    Bobcat attacks on family pets continue in base housing and coyotes roam base backyards and side streets with a common purpose - gathering food. Why base housing? Because, base officials say, some residents have taught them that that's where the food is. For the sake of both pets and predators, it's

  • Edwards to conduct base-wide exercises

    Edwards Air Force Base will conduct a series of readiness exercises Monday, June 22 through Wednesday, June 24. Some exercise events may result in temporary gate closures at three entrances to the base for limited periods of time. These closures will not affect morning or afternoon traffic, but may

  • 412th OSS makes quick work of 95th FSS

    After a recent change and subsequent roster reshuffle the 412th Operations Squadron only gave up three runs in four innings, a feat quite uncommon to slow pitch softball. "We've got a couple of new players that came in and our team has a lot of speed," said Cliff Hebler, 412th OSS coach. "We're