95th Comptroller Squadron launches Edwards into new fiscal year

The buck stops here, as Edwards closed out fiscal year 2007 on Sunday and turned the page to 2008 the next day. The 95th Comptroller Squadron is responsible for the accounting and distribution of funds to various base organizations throughout the fiscal year. A fiscal year is a 12 month period that

Pancho Barnes: Edwards' friend

Florence "Pancho" Barnes was never officially a part of the Edwards community but even so, she is a solid part of our heritage. She was a woman full of contradictions who spent her life living happily on the extremes. She was born rich, even by the standards of her wealthy San Marino neighbors, and

Security forces adds Krav Maga to weapons cache

The 95th Security Forces Squadron added a new weapon to its arsenal during a training class here Sept. 14. The training's focus was Krav Maga martial arts, which is the Israeli military's official system of self defense and hand-to-hand combat. This form of martial arts came to the United States in

CV-22 team concludes developmental testing

The CV-22 Integrated Test Team marked the conclusion of developmental flight testing of the CV-22 Osprey during a farewell event at the 418th Flight Test Squadron here, Sept. 26.The CV-22 program is now graduating from developmental testing to the operational test phase, which will be held at

So that's how you do it

Raptor performs first drop of small diameter bomb

The F-22 Raptor Combined Test Force conducted the first airborne separation of a small diameter bomb from the internal weapons bay of an F-22 here Sept. 5. "This is a major milestone for the F-22 modernization roadmap," said Lt. Col. Daniel Daetz, 411th Flight Test Squadron commander. The drop was

General Bedke relinquishes command Wednesday

After his third assignment at Edwards, the base's highest-ranking officer bids farewell once more as he relinquishes command of the Air Force Flight Test Center on Wednesday.Maj. Gen. Curtis Bedke will enter a new chapter in his Air Force career as the commander of Air Force Research Laboratory at

Edwards celebrates 60th AF anniversary with glitz, glamour

More than 1,000 people from Edwards and the surrounding communities gathered to celebrate the Air Force's 60th anniversary Sept. 21 at hangar 1600. Several months of planning and more than 100 Airmen, civilians and contractors on base united to create a night fit for kings, said Lt. Col. Terry

Senior leaders, fire department beat the heat

Several senior leaders performed structural live fire training with the Edwards fire department recently.The training is an Air Force and the National Fire Protection Association requirement for fire department personnel to maintain Firefighter 1 and 2 certifications. "The training really

Parking lot snake not your typical desert dweller

A recent e-mail circulated around the base warned readers to be sure to check under their cars for snakes. It included two photos of a snake under a car in a main base parking lot. Looking at the photo, base biologists did a double take. Not because someone snapped a photo of a snake under a car in