“The 96th Medical Group is coordinating with the Florida Department of Health concerning the monitoring of a healthy, asymptomatic contractor who works with the 45th Test Squadron (96th Cyberspace Test Group). The individual was notified on March 4 who was potentially exposed to COVID-19 while on cruise Feb. 11-21.”The contractor is not a DoD beneficiary and is seeking care from a private healthcare provider. Until the member’s risk is assessed, the member will not return to work. At this time there are no confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Eglin AFB.

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LISTEN: Eglin contractor may have had off-base exposure to coronavirus

This is audio from Niceville City Council member Sal Nodjomian, talking about the city's approval of a resolution supporting the renaming of the post office in honor of the Doolittle Raiders.

LISTEN: Renaming the Niceville Post Office in honor of Doolittle Raiders

LISTEN: Names released of two 7th SFG soldiers killed in Afghanistan

LISTEN: 7th SFG soldiers among casualties in Afghan "green-on-blue"

For Ed Hubbard, life has had three milestones: getting married, being released from captivity as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, and attending Super Bowl LIV.  Fort Walton Beach’s Edward Lee Hubbard was in a prisoner-of-war camp in Vietnam in 1970, the last year his hometown Kansas City Chiefs played in the Super Bowl, and received two tickets to this Sunday’s Super Bowl to watch the Chiefs play the San Francisco 49ers directly from NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. Listen to him retell the night of Super Bowl.

LISTEN: Amazing Super Bowl story from Vietnam Vet and POW Ed Hubbard

The Viet Cong tossed United States Air Force First Lieutenant Edward Lee Hubbard into a dingy, 12-square foot cell in a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp on July 24th, 1969.Hours later, they tossed another man in the cell — Navy pilot Charlie Plumb.Over the decades, the irony that the Viet Cong had placed the two men together to try and break up familiarity between the prisoners wouldn't be lost on either of them.Both of the men were from Shawnee, Kansas, a small suburb of Kansas City. They'd both gone to the same high school, Shawnee Mission High, just four years apart. Both of them had been captured after their planes were shot down — Hubbard in 1966 and Plumb in 1967.

LISTEN: Vietnam veteran and POW Ed Hubbard is asked to attend Super Bowl

LISTEN: Air Force News - Jan. 28, 2020

The new clinic will be focused on all patients especially veterans. Bosco spoke as the keynote speaker during the ribbon cutting.

LISTEN: Retired Thunderbird Maj. John "Bosco" Bostick speaks at Veterans Healthcare ribbon cutting

Air Force Radio News 3 January 2020 - Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force Kaleth O. Wright talks leadership, resiliency and all things Air Force with Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David L. Goldfein.

Air Force Radio News (Jan. 3, 2020) - CMSGT of Air Force and Chief of Staff talk leadership

Air Force Radio News 31 December 2019Defense Media Activity - Air ForceDec. 31, 2019 | 0:59 By order of Secretary of the Air Force Barbara M. Barrett, effective Dec. 20, Fourteenth Air Force was officially redesignated as Space Operations Command.

Air Force Radio News - Dec. 31, 2019 - Space Operations update

An outpouring of sympathy and support for Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Goble, a 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) Green Beret who died Monday as a result of combat action in Afghanistan, emerged in the hours following Monday evening’s confirmation of his death by the U.S. Department of Defense.

LISTEN: Community mourns the loss of 7thSFG Green Beret

Audio of Petty Officer Sydney Phoenix, a Coast Guard spokeswoman, on calling off the search for Staff Sgt. Cole Condiff. 

LISTEN: Coast Guard spokeswoman on calling off the search for Staff Sgt. Cole Condiff.

Crews from Coast Guard Station Destin were searching Tuesday night Oct 5 2019 for an unidentified Air Force airman from the 24th Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field who apparently had a mishap while exiting a C-130 four-engine aircraft over the Gulf of Mexico earlier in the day. FULL STORY>>>

LISTEN: Search underway for Airman who fell out of C-130 during training over Gulf of Mexico

EGLIN AFB — Explosive ordnance personnel and firefighters from Eglin Air Force Base were on their way Friday afternoon to the Army 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) Camp Simons near Crestview in response to a bomb threat, according to an Eglin spokeswoman.

LISTEN: Gate to 7thSFG closed due to bomb threat

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Peter Kraines, 33, a Special Tactics pararescueman with the 24th Special Operations Wing, died from injuries sustained in an incident while performing mountain rescue techniques in Boise, Idaho, Tuesday, according to a news release from the 24th SOW Public Affairs Office. Kraines, an Albany, New York, native who was assigned to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, enlisted in the United States Air Force in March 2011. He immediately entered the two-year pararescue training program. He became part of Special Tactics in March 2017, according to the 24th SOW news release. “This is a tragic loss to the Special Tactics community,” said Air Force Col. Matthew Allen, commander of the 24th SOW. “Our thoughts are with his family, friends, and teammates at this time.”

( FILE AUDIO OCT. 2019) LISTEN: Airman from Hurlburt-headquartered wing dies in training accident

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