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  • ANT Director becomes first ever Fulbright Scholar from AFIT

    Dr. John Raquet, director of the Advanced Navigation Technology Center at the Air Force Institute of Technology, was selected to become AFIT's first ever Fulbright Scholar and recently returned from spending six months conducting research and teaching the fundamentals of the Global Positioning

  • Tinker sergeant named one of Air Force's best Airmen

    A four-star general doesn't often call an Airman in the field, but on July 27 Master Sgt. James Mogren picked up the phone and heard the voice of Air Force Materiel Command Commander Gen. Donald Hoffman on the other end of the line. What came next was good news as Sergeant Mogren, 72nd Security

  • Air Force names AFMC NCO 1 of 12 outstanding Airmen

    Air Force officials announced Aug. 3 that Master Sgt. James P. Mogren of the 72nd Security Forces Squadron, Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., was selected as one of the 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year for 2010. An Air Force selection board at the Air Force Personnel Center in San Antonio considered 36

  • AFMC announces Robert T. Mason Award nominees

    Air Force Materiel Command has designated its three Air Logistics Centers' depot maintenance wings as nominees to compete in the annual Robert T. Mason Award for Depot Maintenance Excellence.The Robert T. Mason Award is sponsored by the Secretary of Defense and is presented to the outstanding

  • Eglin's Natural Resources Manager earns DOD environmental award

    The Department of Defense honored one of Eglin's own at a ceremony held at the Pentagon today.The 96th Civil Engineer Group's Steve Seiber received the 2010 Secretary of Defense Environmental Award for Natural Resources Conservation for his outstanding achievements to conserve and sustain natural

  • Seven AFMC civilians receive Presidential Rank Award

    Seven Air Force Materiel Command senior civilians received the prestigious Presidential Rank Award at the Women and Military Service for American Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery April 30.Each year the president awards the ranks of Distinguished Executive or Meritorious Executive to a select

  • AFMC announces, honors annual enlisted award winners

    Air Force Materiel Command announced its top enlisted Airmen during the command's 2010 Annual Enlisted Awards Banquet April 22 at the Eglin Officers' Club.The theme for this year's banquet was 'Honoring Excellence, Celebrating Family,' chosen to highlight the Air Force's designation of the Year of

  • AFMC to honor top enlisted at Eglin awards banquet

    Preparations are currently under way to recognize Air Force Materiel Command's top enlisted Airmen during the command's 2010 Annual Enlisted Awards Banquet slated this year for April 22 at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.The theme for this year's banquet is 'Honoring Excellence, Celebrating Family,' one

  • ESC garners two top Air Force acquisition awards

    An Electronic Systems Center group commander and a key program team within his group both received Air Force Acquisition and Transformation Leadership Awards March 10.The awards, to Col. Cordell DeLaPena, commander of the 653rd Electronic Systems Group, and to the Battlefield Airborne Communications

  • Eglin doctor keeps eye on goal, wins DoD, AF awards

    From humble Kansas, beginnings to examining Air Force eyes, Eglin's top optometrist is coming off one "great year".Lt. Col. Annette Williamson, 96th Aerospace Medicine Squadron, earned top honors, winning Optometrist of the Year for The Armed Forces Optometric Society, Association of Military