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  • Special Children's Day highlight for local children, community, volunteers

    About 100 German and American special needs children from St. Martin's school in Bitburg and Department of Defense Dependents Schools - Europe here will to participate in sports activities at Skelton Memorial Fitness Center Oct. 8. The all-day event, which is one of the largest annual community service events put on by the base, requires 200-plus
  • U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Sean Lavely, 1st Communications Maintenance Squadron, perform annual preventative maintenance inspections on an antenna systems at Royal Air Force Base, Barford in England. Sergeant Lavely is deployed from Kapaun Air Station, Germany, as part of the Cable and Antenna Theater Maintenance Team who travel routinely throughout Europe maintaining the communications capability force across the Atlantic and on into Europe. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Michael Voss)

    Airmen ensure communications capability for joint, coalition success

    A team of five Airmen from the 1st Communications Maintenance Squadron is contributing to the ultimate success of the Air Force mission and so much more by maintaining what would appear, other than some radio towers, as an empty field in England. The Airmen are part of the 1st CMXS's Cable and Antenna Theater Maintenance Team from Kapaun Air
  • Brig. Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., 31st Fighter Wing commander's wife (left) and mother (right) pin on his first star following the orders being published for his promotion Sept. 18, 2009, at Aviano Air Base, Italy. Lt. Gen. Frank Gorenc, 3rd Air Force commander, Ramstein Air Base, Germany presided over the ceremony. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Patrick Dixon)

    Wing commander promoted to brigadier general

    Colonel Charles Q. Brown Jr., 31st Fighter Wing commander, pinned on his first star during a promotion ceremony here Sept. 18, 2009.Lt. Gen. Frank Gorenc, 3rd Air Force commander, Ramstein Air Base, Germany presided over the ceremony. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates announced Brig. Gen. Brown's initial nomination by President Barack Obama on
  • Military servicemembers returning from deployment Sept. 11, 2009 catch a breath of fresh air outside the main entrance of the 724th Air Mobility Squadron's new passenger and air freight terminal at Aviano Air Base, Italy while the military chartered aircraft carrying them home is serviced. Passenger service agents from the 724th AMS began processing passengers through the new facility Sept. 10. Volunteers supporting Operation Yellow Ribbon provide snacks and other goodies to servicemembers transiting through the terminal. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Ashley Wood)

    724th AMS opens doors to new NATO terminal

    Air Mobility Command's 724th Air Mobility Squadron at Aviano Air Base, Italy processed their first passengers this week following the opening of the new passenger and air freight terminal Sept. 10.The new 34,000-plus square-foot facility is located approximately a quarter-mile down the street past the old vehicle pass and registration office on
  • SPANGDAHLEM AIR BASE, Germany -- Master Sgt. Antonio Propst, Joint Hometown News Team, records Senior Airman Mason Firestone and Staff Sgt. Elizabeth Hauprich, both 52nd Component Maintenance Squadron, and their son, Joseph’s, Holiday Hometown news greeting at the Spangdahlem Air Base Air Park Sept. 15. A three-man team from Defense Media Activity located in San Antonio, Texas, recorded holiday greetings of military members and their families across Europe for their loved ones in the United States. People who recorded holiday greetings can expect them to be aired after Nov. 23. The team recorded 200 messages here. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Nick Wilson)

    Happy Holidays!

  • Military and civilian personnel socialize during the festivities at the Heritage Ball, Sep. 12, 2009, at RAF Lakenheath, England. The Heritage Ball celebrated 50 years of partnership between the RAF and the 48th Fighter Wing. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Eboni Knox)

    A Celebration of Joint Heritage

    For half a century U.S. Air Force personnel have called RAF Lakenheath home; and to celebrate that 50 years of partnership, the men and women of RAF Lakenheath gathered together Sept. 12 at the Air Force Heritage Ball with their British hosts to further cement the special bond that brings our two countries together. The night kicked off as
  • Lt. Col. John “Bugs” Bunnell, 494th Fighter Squadron commander, is interviewed by NATO Television reporter David Heathfield, at the airport in Tallinn, Estonia Monday. Lieutenant Colonel Bunnell, had just landed his F-15 Strike Eagle after completing day one of NATO’s Baltic Region Training Event IV Alpha. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Master Sgt. Gino Mattorano)

    Update: U.S. F-15E fighter pilots train with Estonian forward air controllers

    Several F-15E Strike Eagles from RAF Lakenheath's 494th Fighter Squadron participated in a two-day NATO training event near Tallinn, Estonia Monday and Tuesday helping to train Estonian forward air controllers in calling in close air support. The event, titled Baltic Region Training Event IV Alpha, gave F-15E aircrews and the Estonian FACs the
  • RAF MILDENHALL, England -- Air Cmdr. (retired) Charles Clarke (left) and Andrew Wiseman, former prisoners of war, were two of the guest speakers at the POW/Missing in Action Remembrance Luncheon at the Galaxy Club here Sept. 16. The former Royal Air Force servicemembers told their stories about being shot down over Germany during World War II and their lives in a POW camp. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Thomas Trower)

    Former RAF POWs share experiences with Mildenhall Airmen

    About 50 Airmen were given a first-hand account of life in a German World War II prison camp during a question-and-answer session held here Sept. 16. Historian Dr. Howard Tuck, whose career is dedicated to military history, introduced Air Cmdr. (retired) Charles Clarke and Andrew Wiseman, both of whom were imprisoned in Stalug Luft III during World
  • SPANGDAHLEM AIR BASE, Germany – Lt. Col. Gary Dawson, 606th Air Control Squadron director of operations, puts his helmet on his daughter Katie after returning from a four-month deployment to Kandahar, Afghanistan, Sept. 16. About 60 members of the 606th ACS operated radar and communication for command and control for the 71st Expeditionary Air Control Squadron. The unit also deployed 300 short tons of equipment to support air battle management operations and more than 13,000 sorties. Approximately 30 other 606th ACS members also returned from a four-month deployment to southwest Asia in support of the 73rd EACS. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Nick Wilson)

    Welcome home!

  • EINSEIDLERHOF AIR STATION, Germany-- Lt. Col. Travis Crawmer works the controls of an Advanced Tactical Aircraft Simulator, as Lt. Col Mike McMillan observes, at the U.S. Air Forces in Europe Warrior Preparation Center to enhance close air support training for joint terminal attack controllers and the U.S. Army during a Mission Readiness Exercise. The two colonels, who recently returned from Southwest Asia deployments and are about to go back in the coming months, are F-16 fighter pilots from the Air National Guard’s 132nd Fighter Wing in Des Moines, Iowa sent temporary duty to USAFE to fly the live, virtual, constructive simulator since the WPC doesn’t have pilots that are current qualified in the cockpit. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Corey Clements)

    Live, virtual, constructive simulators key for training in USAFE

    The U.S. Air Forces in Europe Warrior Preparation Center in Einseidlerhof, Germany partnered with Joint Forces Command and the Air National Guard in introducing an advancing live, virtual, constructive (LVC) simulator during a joint Mission Readiness Exercise with the U.S. Army's 173rd Brigade Combat Team Aug. 31 - Sept. 11 to enhance training for
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