Edwards AFB News

  • Criss Angel has blast at Edwards

    Criss Angel, star of the television show "Mindfreak" filmed a one-hour special for his fifth season premiere here June 15. The celebrity took time to visit with more than 200 fans at Edwards and sign autographs in the Stripes Lounge at the Oasis Community Center. "Edwards personifies the future of

  • Team Edwards goes Hollywood

    Scenes from the upcoming movie Ironman II were filmed here May 11 through 13, with the support of about 60 members of Team Edwards taking part as extras and technical advisors. Parts of the first Ironman as well as numerous movies and television shows have also taken advantage of Edwards for filming

  • Environmental Management offers dance with dandelions

    Tiptoe through the tidytips, dance through the desert dandelions and get giddy with the gilia.The winter's rainfall promises a colorful spring on base, and Environmental Management is sponsoring several free wildflower tours for base residents and workers. Tours are scheduled for: -- March 31 and

  • Edwards AFAF campaign on track

    This week marks the halfway point in the Air Force Assistance Fund's 2009 campaign and so far, it's ahead of schedule. The goal of the AFAF is to get 100 percent contact with all of the base's servicemembers and financially, $47,708. Currently, the 20 group representatives and their key workers have

  • Annual duck blind drawing slated Aug. 9

    Waterfowl hunters can participate in the annual duck blind drawing scheduled Aug. 9, at the Rod and Gun Activity, building 210. Base hunting permits can be submitted to drawing officials from 9 a.m. until the actual drawing begins, which will be at approximately 10 a.m. Duck blind reservations are

  • Edwards to celebrate Independence Day with Summer Bash

    Team Edwards is hosting the 17th Annual Summer Bash at Roberts and Wings Field here July 4, from 4 to 10 p.m. The festivity is in celebration of the United States' 232nd anniversary of the day it gained its independence. "Events like this are intended to get everyone from around the base together,"

  • Retreat Ceremony, Sports Half-day, barbeque set for April 25

    Following the first 2008 installation retreat ceremony on April 25 at 1 p.m. in front of the Air Force Flight Test Center, the 95th Air Base Wing is set to host a Wingman and Sports Half-Day at the Oasis Community Center. Col. Nancy Wharton, 95 ABW commander, authorized the Wingman and Sports