Edwards AFB News

  • Edwards Middle School basketball wins fifth consecutive game

    The Edwards Middle School Eagles basketball team is five for five as they won their fourth and fifth game here against the Monroe Tigers 45-33 Jan. 16 and against the Murray Mustangs 44-21 at Ridgecrest, Calif. Jan. 18.The Eagles played Monroe at home, with leading scorer Lacarlis Moore's 10 points

  • Household claims process changes

    People who have damaged household goods have a new, online process to submit claims. The claims, which were previously processed locally through the Edwards Legal Office, are now processed online and submitted to the Air Force Claims Service Center near Dayton, Ohio. The change is a result of the

  • Edwards contracting team receives AFMC award

    The Edwards Research Propulsion Sciences II team won the Air Force Materiel Command's 2006 Outstanding Contracting Team for Science and Technology recently. The contracting team -- comprised of 15 personnel from six specialties -- is responsible for acquisition of basic and applied rocket and space

  • Edwards captain wins MEO award

    An Edwards captain received the Air Force Materiel Command 2006 Outstanding Military Equal Opportunity Individual Award recently. Capt. Hector Morua, Edwards Military Equal Opportunity chief, won the award for the period of October 2005 to September 2006. "I was shocked," Captain Morua said.

  • Cold weather 'freezes' base, causes maintenance issues

    Throughout the past week, the Edwards community, along with the Antelope Valley, has experienced the coldest period in 16 years. With these cold temperatures, base emergency services personnel received more than 306 calls as of Tuesday, with complaints varying from frozen pipes and flooding or

  • Airborne Laser returns for more testing

    YAL-1A, a modified Boeing 747-400F known as the Airborne Laser, made its return journey to the Air Force Flight Test Center in December after undergoing modifications at Boeing's facilities in Wichita, Kan.The modifications on the aircraft include the installation of the beam control and fire

  • Edwards donates computers to base schools

    During the holiday season Edwards donated 79 computers to the Muroc Joint Unified School District schools. This is part of the Department of Defense Computers for Learning program -- a program that Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service does to the excess or old computers. "As the (95th)

  • 95th Air Base Wing conducts safety day

    As personnel came back to work from a holiday vacation, the 95th Air Base Wing conducted their 2nd Annual Safety Day at the building 3000 parking lot here Monday. Airmen and civilian personnel participated in various interactive safety demonstrations conducted by the Edwards fire department,

  • Edwards sees 22 to 35 percent increase in BAH

    Military members residing in the local community will see an increase of at least 22-percent in their housing allowance in today's paycheck.The Air Force average for Basic Allowance for Housing was 3.5 percent, but housing costs in some areas on both the East and West coasts, along with Hawaii, have