Military Archive

Local base commanders and Rep. Jimmy Patronis (R-FL1) made the case on May 27 that the area’s congested roadways are not just a quality-of-life problem, it is also a threat to national security.

While heavy rain may have forced event organizers to change the venue to the Gracey Community Center on Memorial Day, the City of Milton still showed up to honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice.

Memorial Day will be held Monday, May 25, this year. In recognition of the holiday, there are multiple ceremonies planned in Santa Rosa County.

For retired Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. David Post, getting from the bedroom to the bathroom used to mean crawling on his hand and knees.
Post lost his left foot to a roadside bomb in Afghanistan in 2011. A recent ankle fusion has made him rely more on a wheelchair to get around. In a regular home, that meant narrow doorways his chair couldn’t clear and a bathroom that felt more of an obstacle course than a relaxing getaway.
“I’ve crawled on my hands and knees to safely transition into a shower and then crawled back on the same floor to exit, in situations more than I’d like to admit,” Post said in a presentation outside his new home.
With help from a national nonprofit, those instances are now a memory.

A career fair targeting military members, veterans and their families will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 20, at the Santa Rosa County Auditorium, 4530 Spikes Way.

Naval Air Station Pensacola reopened its areas of public interest to daily visitation Friday, including the National Naval Aviation Museum, the Pensacola Lighthouse and Maritime Museum and Fort Barrancas.

The office inside Whiting Field Naval Air Station’s chapel is not what you might expect from a military chaplain. Pokemon cards line a shelf of Lt. j.g. James Ferguson, the base’s newest chaplain and, as it turns out, one of its most unlikely ones.

Tim Chandler has spent his life answering callings.
At 16, he started preaching. Not long after, he joined the Marine Corps and never saw the two as a contradiction.
“Being a minister and a man of God made me a better Marine,” Chandler said, “and being a Marine made me a better minister and a man of God.”

Naval Air Station Whiting Field cut the ribbon on a new air traffic control tower at North Field on April 6, marking what installation leadership called a significant step forward in Naval aviation training infrastructure.

The Santa Rosa County Council of the Navy League of the United States recognized outstanding sailors, flight instructors, civilians and youth leaders during its annual awards banquet honoring personnel from Naval Air Station Whiting Field on March 6.