Edwards AFB News

  • New VPP office dedicated to helping workers ensure safety in their workplaces

    Now that most of the wrinkles have been ironed out concerning how to best use the Voluntary Protection Program, officials said the Edwards workforce, management and union have forged a partnership to enhance safety on base.The VPP is a program designed to enlist front-line workers to help ensure

  • Happy 60th birthday Air Force Flight Test Center

    Sixty years ago, an organization was born out of a need for innovation, knowledge and the capability of proving the systems and flying qualities of aircraft. "Ad Inexplorata" - Toward the Unexplored - was, and still is, the motto of the Air Force Flight Test Center, born June 25, 1951.This is a look

  • Red Cross dinner shows appreciation to Airmen, Marines in dorms

    For young Airmen who ship off to Edwards, the seclusion, both geographically and socially, can be initially shocking and at times intimidating.But when Airmen like Airman 1st Class Nance Daisha take the time to venture from the dormitories and look around, in the midst of the sand and Joshua trees,

  • Gas station, Bldg. 7211, will adjust hours for power outage June 18

    As part of an energy conservation project, 95th Civil Engineering Division needs to install meters at certain facilities Saturday, June 18.95th CE will have to turn off power during the installations.The facilities have adjusted their hours to cause minimal disruption.The following facilities will

  • Airmen learn skills to fight the battle of the bulge, poor nutrition

    Airman 1st Class Nathaniel Fisher, 412th Maintenance Squadron, is conscious of his eating habits and thought he was eating healthy."My grandparents are diabetics and I want to make sure I don't end up with the disease," he said.To combat his chances of being inflicted with a disease that appears to

  • Student from Rosamond wins Defense Commissary Agency scholarship

    Drum roll please..."and the winner of a $1,500 scholarship is Taylor Steele from Rosamond," announced Mr. William J. Shea, Store Director at the Edwards AFB Commissary.This scholarship is part of the Scholarships for Military Children Program, funded by manufacturers and suppliers that provide

  • Edwards AFB Exchange to 'Give Away the House' to One Lucky Shopper

    Army and Air Force Exchange Service locations are once again teaming up with Hershey's to give away nearly $20,000 worth of children's playhouses through June 30.One "Step 2 Neat and Tidy Cottage" Playhouse will be given away to an Edwards Base Exchange shopper as part of the giveaway. Valued at

  • Edwards to welcome back Desert Wings June 10

    Following a nearly five-year hiatus the Desert Wings returns to Edwards Air Force Base and Antelope Valley communities beginning June 10.A five-year commercial enterprise contract with Aerotech News and Review of Lancaster, Calif., revived the long-storied base newspaper. Previously, Aerotech had