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  • Travel web site helps determine risks when planning events

    Returning from deployment, getting ready for marriage, a promotion and three-day weekends are just some of the occasions in which Airmen take the time to plan and schedule everything between simple and extravagant leave.Planning for a good time on leave is not only limited to the destination,

  • EPA awards Aviano clinic second Energy Star

    The 31st Medical Group was recently awarded its second Energy Star by the Environmental Protection Agency, making the Aviano Air Base clinic the "greenest" in the Air Force.To qualify for the Energy Star, a building must earn 75 or more points on the EPA's 100-point performance scale, indicating

  • Training for the worst, one breath at a time

    Aircrews flying the skies over Ramstein see the best views of Europe, get places the fastest and have what many consider the coolest jobs the Air Force can offer. But having those special roles comes with risk that most people with two feet on the ground have never heard of.Hypoxia, by definition,

  • Alconbury to Aviano: Taking care of the family during increased ops

    The fast pace of world events and military support can result in military members being called to deploy on short notice, but when asked for volunteers, two civilians from the 423rd Force Support Squadron stepped up.Christine Kaleikini and Natasha Matthews both volunteered to go to Aviano Air Base,

  • Holocaust survivor shares her mother's story

    Eva Clark was born during the Holocaust to Jewish parents who were kept as prisoners-of-war in Terezin (called 'Theresienstadt' by the Germans), in the former Czech Republic. Eva visited RAF Mildenhall in 2008, during Holocaust Remembrance Week, to share her mother's experiences throughout that

  • Navy P-3 transits Lajes

    A Navy P-3 Orion and its crew stopped at Lajes for a "gas-n-go" May 3, 2011, on their way to Naval Station Rota, Spain.The P-3, assigned to Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron Two, commonly referred to as VQ-2, was coming from Curaçao, an island in the southern Caribbean Sea, off the Venezuelan coast,

  • U.S. Air Force & Congolese military complete MEDLITE 11

    After months of careful planning and after two weeks of execution, MEDLITE 11, a joint medical exercise focused on aeromedical evacuation, to improve the readiness of U.S. Air Force and Democratic Republic of the Congo personnel, has drawn to a close here at the Centre Superior Militaire

  • Photo Essay: U.S. Air Force and Congolese conduct mass casualty exercise

    U.S. Air Force active duty, National Guard and Reserve members along with members of the Congolese military participate in the mass casualty training scenario as the final event for MEDLITE 11 at the Kinshasa Airport, May 5, 2011. MEDLITE 11 is a joint medical exercise focused on aeromedical

  • Spangdahlem Airmen prepare for Eifel Thunder

    Airmen from the 606th Air Control Squadron here are preparing for Eifel Thunder May 9-16. Eifel Thunder is a field exercise in which Airmen take all of their equipment to a simulated deployed location to live and work as if they are on a real deployment."This is getting our experience level way up

  • Aviano children experience deployment line

    Children from the Aviano elementary and middle schools experienced a simulated deployment line May 5 at the Personnel Alert Holding Area, here. "It's something we do so we can help the kids understand what their mom and dad go through before and during a deployment," said Master Sgt. Jamie Kitchen,