AEDC's Crawford Parrish aims high

Crawford Parrish Sr., AEDC's acquisition program manager and a verger at St. Barnabas Church in Tullahoma, confers with this wife Fran before an evening service.

AEDC’s Rob Merrill presents a Technical Excellence Seminar on ‘tracking small UAVs in an urban environment’

Far right, Dr. Ralph Jones, branch manager of Aerospace Testing Alliance's (ATA) Technology Analysis Branch at AEDC, asks Rob Merrill a question after the young aerospace engineer’s recent technical seminar presentation on a 6-month project he undertook with the 2012 Commander’s Challenge. (Photo by Philip Lorenz III)

AEDC to hold luncheon celebrating African American heritage

March on Washington in 1963 (Photo by Warren K. Leffler)

AEDC to hold luncheon celebrating African American heritage

Emancipation Proclamation document, 1863 (Library of Congress image)

AEDC Fire Department hosts a visit by honorary deputy fire chief

The AEDC Fire Department, represented by, from left to right, Kip Luttrell, crew chief; John Templeton, firefighter; Joey Edwards, driver operator; Sam Teat, fire fighter; Tom Lombard, assistant chief; Lonnie Brown, driver/operator; Dwane Kimmel, crew chief; Billy Miles, paramedic/firefighter; Jay Baldwin, driver/operator; Odell Crutchfield, crew chief; and Carey Powers, driver/operator, hosted Mark Kelly Olson during the young man’s recent visit to the base. Olson is a 10-year-old boy who was diagnosed with very high-risk, acute lymphocytic leukemia in May and was later adopted by the Arnold AFB Fire Department as their new deputy fire chief. While visiting AEDC, Olson got the opportunity to play the role as honorary fire chief, conducting roll call, inspecting firefighting equipment and helping to demolish a car, symbolizing the young man’s battle with cancer. Olson’s father, Mark, is an ATA operations controller at Arnold Air Force Base. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)

ACC presents General Carroll photo to AEDC

Arnold Community Council (ACC) President Steve Cope (center) recently presented a framed picture of Gen. Franklin O. Carroll to the AEDC Commander, Col. Raymond Toth (right) with ATA General Manager Steve Pearson (left) looking on. Previously the building didn’t have any pictures of Gen. Carroll, only a plaque. The picture includes several photos reminiscent of the General’s days as AEDC’s first commander. Gen. Carroll is only the third person to have an AEDC building named after him. (Photo by: Jacqueline Cowan)