Eglin Airmen launched a critical care mission Aug. 5 after receiving an emergency call to transport a patient with a brain aneurysm from Panama City to Pensacola. The 413th Flight Test Squadron and 96th Medical Group assembled a medical team and helicopter in less than two hours, delivering the patient for emergency neurosurgery.
An Ohio woman has pleaded guilty to felony child neglect after a welfare investigation on Eglin Air Force Base led investigators to rescue a child from her home in 2023. Devon Mae Witryk faces up to five years in federal prison, with sentencing scheduled for Sept. 17 in Pensacola.
AI-powered F-16 fighter jets are now flying at Eglin Air Force Base as the VENOM program reaches a major milestone in autonomous military aviation.
Eglin Air Force Base’s F-15EX Eagle II returned to the Indo-Pacific to help prepare Kadena Air Base for the fighter’s future permanent arrival.
On June 27, 1940, over 340,000 acres of the Choctawhatchee National Forest were officially transferred from the Department of the Interior to the War Department. This historic move was driven by President Franklin Roosevelt’s conviction that the U.S. needed to prepare for war, primarily in response to Axis aggression and the U.S. embargo on Japan. This single action fundamentally transformed the local economy and environment around Choctawhatchee Bay, shifting it from a rustic, subsistence living to a hub that enabled the space age and the American Defense Industry. The land soon became the Valparaiso Gunnery Range, the precursor to a massive military-industrial-research complex that brought billions of dollars and a storm of new residents to the Emerald Shores.
Eglin Air Force Base will conduct munitions testing in the Gulf of America from June 1-6, prompting safety warnings for boaters near Destin.
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