There’s good news for veterans who live in Santa Rosa County and need transportation to and from the Veteran’s Affairs (VA) Joint Ambulatory Care Center in Pensacola. A free shuttle service called Vets to VA is providing for veterans who do not have the means to get back and forth to medical appointments with transportation. The new service is a revision of a former community-based program which ended several years ago because of a lack of funding.

Banners were hung, music was played and black and red balloons decorated the table around a similarly-colored cake.  The flightline around the Training Squadron THREE line shack appeared festive vice functional on August 6 as the squadron members celebrated their selection as the top aviation training squadron in the Navy.

HURLBURT FIELD - Two Air Force Special Tactics instructors rescued an Alabama teenager on August 5 after he fell 30 feet from a steep rock face while climbing in the Cherokee Rock mountain range in Sand Rock, Ala.

HURLBURT FIELD – There’s a new way to come and go on Hurlburt Field. Beg is now inning last Monday, July 29, base access is now using the Trusted Traveler Program. The Trusted Traveler Program allows all Department of Defense identification cardholders (DoD employees, active-duty military, family members ages 18 and older and retired service members) to vouch for occupants in their immediate vehicle, provided the Trusted Traveler vehicle operator possesses a valid DoD ID card. 

Cadets from the Navarre High School NJROTC program were rewarded with a trip to Six Flags Over Georgia and other destinations after a summer full of leadership camps and activities.

When 1st Lieutenant David A. Zitelli, USAF, skidded his T-6B “Texan II” to a stop on the runway at Naval Air Station Whiting Field (NASWF) on July 23, it ended an era of joint student-pilot training between the U.S. Navy and Air Force. Roughly 100 Air Force students have participated in the training program each year since the partnership began 19 years ago.

HURLBURT FIELD – In response to sequestration and civilian furloughs, the food pantry inside the Airman's Attic at Hurlburt Field recently opened its doors to civilian personnel.

Santa Rosa County is home to the busiest naval air station in the world - NAS Whiting Field, which just surpassed the 70th anniversary of its commission on July 16. Base command hosted a cake-cutting ceremony to celebrate the milestone July 24 at the station, located just north of Milton.

The smell of food, the sound of music, and stormy weather filled the air for the 25th Annual Cardboard Boat Regatta at Hurlburt Field.