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  • Take care of our Air Force

    As I prepare to transition from active duty into "civilian" life, I've had the opportunity to reflect on my Air Force career and especially my time here at U.S. Air Forces in Europe. I want to share with you a few of my thoughts. I firmly believe USAFE is the best command in the Air Force! Why?

  • Londoners bid farewell

    What makes the villages of East Anglia, the region north of London, such centers of good will and kindness, and when will similarly-populated villages in Afghanistan rise to that level?There's no clear answer on the latter, only a continual struggle to bring peace to that region. However, here in

  • Land of setting sun

    Anxiety grows with each hour now - soon I must head to Afghanistan.Though seeing their father and husband off to war is a seemingly dismal thought in itself, the silver lining for my family is that they got to return to Okinawa, Japan, for the duration of my deployment.Recently, we made the 25-hour

  • Sept. 11 - a time to remember

    When Sept. 11 rolls around every year, I find myself again trying to put to rest the ghosts that resonate like church bells across the English countryside in my mind.It's been nine years since I heard our videographer Roland Leach call out from the studio at Robins Air Force Base, Ga., and we all

  • Enlisted development is key to building partnership capacity

    Noncommissioned officers are the backbone of our Air Force, and as we partner with developing nations and our NATO allies, it's vital that we collaborate in our NCO development efforts.This international military partnering directly supports U.S. Air Forces in Europe's priority of building

  • Dr. Woo's legacy of hope lives on

    With clenched fists and a heart full of anger, I read a breaking Associated Press story today about a woman I worked closely with on a humanitarian initiative a few months back, a doctor senselessly gunned down by terrorist insurgents.The attack happened after her team provided

  • Good, bad news in early USAFE fitness returns

    After a month of testing under the new USAF Fitness Tables, there is both bad news and good news in U.S. Air Forces in Europe. The bad news is that in more than 2,000 tests administered in the month of July, our failure rate is approximately 23 percent. The good news is that a significant number of

  • Thanks for a job well done

    Warriors and Wingmen! I can never say thank you enough to each and every Airman at Team Ramstein for their contributions to our Wing and the incredible feats we accomplish every day.Feats such as being USAFE's only airlift, airdrop and aeromedical evacuation operations flying the C-20H, C-21, C-37,

  • What Air Force Aid Society is all about

    The Air Force Aid Society is the official charity of the U.S. Air Force. It was incorporated in 1942 as a non-profit organization whose mission is to help relieve financial distress of Air Force members and their families and to assist them in financing their higher education goals. The roots of the

  • Nutrition: Where and how

    If you have ever owned a truck, you have likely had dozens of friends ask you to tow their junk around town. A physical therapist is constantly getting questions about aches and pains in and out of the clinic. When people find out I am a dietitian, they often ask "okay then, how should I eat?" My