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  • October celebrates energy awareness month

    October celebrates National Energy Awareness Month with the theme, "A New Culture: Energy as an Operations Enabler." This year's theme follows the Air Force Energy Strategy, which was founded on the three pillars of reducing demand, increasing supply and changing culture. The recent push to reduce

  • Energy Awareness Month: Making energy a consideration in all we do

    The following information is provided by the Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs Office.Energy conservation and energy security are central to all Airmen and their continued mission execution success. We will support the Joint mission while reducing demand, increasing supply and changing the

  • Red Ribbon Week helps raise awareness against substance abuse

    Many servicemembers might remember participating in the DARE program, or Drug Abuse Resistance Education, targeted towards school-aged children but may not have participated in a drug prevention cause since.Red Ribbon Week offers the perfect opportunity to do just that - by taking a visible stand

  • Aviano sergeant, civilian breeze past competition

    The 31st Forces Support Squadron hosted the 2010 U.S. Air Forces in Europe Cross-Country Central Region Championships Oct. 15 at Madonna Del Monte, Aviano, Italy.Donnie Gray, 31st Communications Squadron, took first place in the men's 10 km race with a time of 38:35, while Antoaneta Fitzpatrick,

  • USAFE, Bulgarian medics forge successful partnerships

    Airmen from the 86th Airlift Wing and 435th Air Ground Operations Wing at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, joined Airmen from throughout U.S. Air Forces in Europe in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Oct. 18, to participate in Thracian Fall 2010. The three-week, combined exercise is designed to provide both U.S. and

  • Aviano welcomes 300 Airmen back home

    Team Aviano welcomed back approximately 300 Airmen Oct. 4 and 6 from a four-and-a-half-month deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Unlike many Air Force deployments in which individuals are deployed from various bases to be part of other teams in theater, an entire aviation package

  • Spangdahlem's pilots; diplomats in the skies

    Flying is all in a day's work for Spangdahlem's F-16 Fighting Falcon pilots from the 480th Fighter Squadron, but during the three-week Operation Thracian Star combined weapons training deployment here, they are also diplomats.In one of the biggest aircraft deployments the Bulgarian base has ever