Edwards AFB News

  • Team Edwards performs last full-blown exercise before UCI

    With five weeks left before the base's Unit Compliance Inspection in January, Team Edwards performed its last full-blown Operational Readiness Exercise and Emergency Management Exercise Dec. 2 to 5. The weeklong exercise tested the base's disaster response, Airmen mobility process and deployment

  • Team Edwards plays for $1 million in golf tournament

    Team Edwards played for a chance to win $1 million at the Air Force Sergeants Association Golf Tournament at Muroc Lake Golf Course here Oct. 5. The tournament, which was hosted by the AFSA Spaceway Chapter, consisted of 25 players who competed in an 18-hole game and had two hole-in-one prize

  • Team Edwards plays 'Santa' to deployed troops

    Team Edwards is deploying 109 care packages to the area of responsibility as part of Operation Touch our Warriors, each bearing a mission -- to bring holiday joy to deployed Edwards Airmen.Operation Touch our Warriors is an Edwards annual tradition, where the whole community donate items and

  • Team Edwards prepares for F-16 AESA radar upgrade testing

    As part of the F-16 Radar Modernization Program, a team from the 416th Flight Test Squadron are preparing to conduct flight testing of the Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar on two 412th Test Wing aircraft from Sept. 2015 through Aug. 2016."Current F-16 mechanically-scan radars have

  • Team Edwards prepares for Sexual Assault Awareness Month

    Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Thomas Mitsch helps design a message regarding sexual assault prevention and awareness on a T-shirt during a Sexual Assault Awareness Month event held March 20 at the Oasis Community Center. Sergeant Mitsch is a Marine Tiltrotor Operational Test and Evaluation Squadron

  • Team Edwards prepares for Unit Compliance Inspection

    Team Edwards is gearing up for a Unit Compliance Inspection from Jan. 9 through 22. Base organizations are buried with inspection checklists to ensure that they have everything covered. However, a lot of people might be wondering what a Unit Compliance Inspection is. Unit Compliance Inspections

  • 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

  • Team Edwards promotes 22 enlisted Airmen in April

    Twenty-two members of Team Edwards were promoted in April.   Promoting to Airman 1st Class:Airman 1st Class Jake B. Stika, 412th Aircraft Maintenance SquadronPromoting to Senior Airman:Airman 1st Class Timothy Ball Jr., 412th AMXSAirman 1st Class Bryan F. Haberaecker, 412th Maintenance

  • Team Edwards promotes 28 in monthly ceremony

    Twenty-nine Airmen were promoted at Club Muroc May 31 as part of the June ceremony.Congratulations to the following Airmen:Promoted to the rank of airman 1st class:Airman Blaine Barino, 95th Aerospace Medicine SquadronPromoted to the rank of senior airman:Airman 1st Class George Rasavong, 95th

  • Team Edwards promotes 32 in December

    Thirty-two Airmen were selected for promotion in the month of December. Congratulations to the following Airmen:Promoted to Airman 1st Class:Airman Charles J. Barr, 412th Aircraft Maintenance SquadronAirman Kylle R. Higgins, 95th Security Forces SquadronAirman Clayton G. Oates, 412th Aircraft