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  • Political dos and don'ts during campaign season

    With the 2010 elections coming up, television newscasts and newspaper articles are filled with the latest news about the candidates running for various offices. While exercising a right to vote is the duty of all Americans, military and civilian federal employees should understand the laws and

  • 100th SFS Defenders help prep RAF Regiment for Afghanistan tour

    The sweet smell of diesel exhaust began to fill the pitch-black air as Airmen started their Humvees an hour before daylight and began to convoy out to their rendevous point with a flight of Royal Air Force Regiment infantrymen in the middle of a 30,000-acre range.The first full field day of Exercise

  • Ramstein Civilians make complex C-21 engine swap

    Civilian contractors from DynCorp International began replacing a C-21 aircraft engine Sept. 10 here that is projected to be completed by Sept. 16.Usually an engine conversion is done meeting time-change requirements after 1400 hours of run time, but this engine is being changed due to an

  • MEDCEUR classes set stage for success

    Tents, medical supplies and field hospitals stand ready for the moulaged patients of live mass casualty exercise scenarios at MEDCEUR '10, Medical Training Exercise in Central & Eastern Europe 2010. The medical personnel who will spring into action during these scenarios are 400 yards away in

  • US, Portuguese Airmen honor 9-11 ceremony at Lajes Field

    Airmen of the 65th Air Base Wing were joined by their Portuguese counterparts during a solemn Sept. 11 ceremony held at Lajes Field to pay tribute to those who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.American and Portuguese Airmen representing firefighters, law enforcement and emergency medical

  • Air Force 63 years young

    Team Aviano celebrated the Air Force's 63rd birthday in style with an Air Force ball held at the La Bella Vista Club Sept. 10.The event which honored the anniversary of the Air Force becoming its own branch in the U.S. military on Sept. 18, 1947, provided a special social occasion for the Air Force

  • Soldiers teach MEDCEUR lessons -- feature

    Most participants in the Medical Training Exercise in Central & Eastern Europe deploy from Europe-based units.One group of soldiers, however, comes all the way from New York.The seven-member U.S. Army Civil-Military Operations team, based at Fort Wadsworth, N.Y., supports MEDCEUR by teaching