Duke Field News

Funding has been secured to build an overpass on State Road 85 to reduce congestion as additional traffic arrives because of the bed down of the 7th Special Forces Group.

Rhonda Grice, public involvement coordinator for the Okaloosa-Walton Transportation Planning Organization, said principal players in the project discussed the timeline in a recent telephone conference.

Eglin Air Force Base officials hosted a meeting Tuesday to discuss an alternative that would use Choctaw Field in South Santa Rosa County for the Joint Strike Fighter training mission.

Air Force officials held their 4th and final scoping meeting in Valparaiso residents Thursday night to discuss the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter's upcoming arrival at Eglin Air Force Base.

Nearly 150 people attended this week's fourth and final scoping meeting of proposed alternatives for bedding down the F-35 at Eglin Air Force Base.

Four dozen F-35's that seemed a sure bet for Eglin Air Force Base are no longer a guarantee.

Duke Field in Okaloosa County may be the Air Force's only reserve special operations wing.

Okaloosa County, you're behaving hysterically, says Valparaiso City Attorney Doug Wyckoff.

Thousands of Okaloosa County's better-paid public servants don't get their paychecks from any state, county or city office.

Spotting Master Sgt. Tom Haddock among the crowd of airmen descending from the back of the plane, Bacchus broke free from his mistress and galloped across the tarmac in a burst of pure joy, his long metal leash flailing helplessly behind him.

Forget TV's "Iron Chef." The folks who feed some 1,300 airmen breakfast, lunch and dinner day in and day out are solid gold, baby - without peer and tops in their game.

Col. Bruce McClintock, commander of Eglin's 96th Air Base Wing, may have had trouble getting to his scheduled town hall meeting because of traffic, but he managed to provide updates on all of Eglin's programs in half the time he had allotted.

Eglin Air Force Base will receive a 2009 John L. Hennessy Award for the best Air Force food services in the world and more than 70 employees of Gulf Coast Enterprises will share the honor.