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  • AEDC team is proactive with protecting work force, local populace

    AEDC Commander Col. Michael Panarisi is impressed with the way the center's work force handled a challenging situation last Friday after low amounts of ethylene glycol were found in one building's water supply.Colonel Panarisi said the detection, investigation and mitigation efforts initiated by the

  • Crews searching for dangerous pieces of history at AEDC

    It started with an Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) security officer reporting unexploded ordnance (UXO) on a two-track trail in September 2009. The UXO was lying under and next to a tree near the boat ramp off South Hap Arnold Drive. It was round, brown and about eight inches in

  • Air Force officials announce court-martial sentence for former command chief

    The week-long court-martial of Chief Master Sgt. William Gurney, the former command chief of Air Force Materiel Command, concluded Jan. 28 with a six-member panel of male officers sentencing the chief to 20 months confinement, reduction to rank of E-1 and a dishonorable discharge for 15 violations

  • No contact order lifted at Arnold

    The commander of Arnold Air Force Base has lifted the no contact order for the base water supply after glycol levels dropped below one part per million throughout the base effective mid-day Sunday. The no drink order remains in effect until further notice and drinking water has been prepositioned in

  • AEDC Commander orders no drinking/no contact with base water

    The commander of Arnold Engineering Development Center has directed employees not to use the potable water on base because of contaminants found Friday. The workforce was alerted late yesterday after ethylene glycol was found in one building's water supply."Yesterday we sampled the water in the ELA

  • AEDC's Master Sergeant Ryan Miller is true to his beliefs

    When AEDC's Master Sgt. Ryan Miller attended a church service back in 1995, he wasn't exactly enthusiastic about being there. However, that single event dramatically changed his life.Sergeant Miller, AEDC's munitions accountable systems officer, was stationed at Wheeler Army Airfield on Oahu,

  • Everett wins prestigious award at police academy

    When Arnold Police Lt. Dave Everett left to attend the police academy, the veteran policeman's goal was to fulfill a departmental requirement and learn some things in the process.Everett, who is the installation plans and programs officer and alternate antiterrorism officer at Arnold Engineering

  • Crews keep AEDC roads safe during winter weather

    When the weather outside turns frightful, chances are Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) crews have already been at work, making sure the base and its access roads are passable for employees."Our main goal is to keep the roads as safe as we can and to be able to get people to and from

  • AEDC workers meeting challenge of returning wind tunnel to service

    A look at the photos shows the scope of the damage: two-inch thick steel plates cracked and peeled away from stabilizers as easily as peeling the shell off of a boiled egg.The daunting task of repairing the damage in the Von Kármán Gas Dynamics Facility (VKF) Wind Tunnel A is kind of like putting