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  • Adopt-a-road/parking lot program keeps base looking pristine

    Two decades of continuous deployments around the globe, manpower reductions, aging aircraft and budget cuts, Air Force units worldwide are streamlining operations and adopting more cost effective programs.The personnel at Aviano Air Base, Italy are no different as the 31st Civil Engineer Squadron

  • Aviano CFC-Overseas pledges surpass $300K

    Federal employees assigned to the 31st Fighter Wing showed how they can "Make a World of Difference" during the 2009 Combined Federal Campaign-Overseas as they surpassed their 2008 contributions by nearly $49,000.During the 68-day campaign which ran here Oct. 5 thru Dec. 11, more than 1,600 base

  • German-American friendships strengthen at Trier Christmas market

    The crisp winter air was hardly a match for the food, friends and music that was shared at the Trier Christmas Market Dec. 17.In the season of friendship, gifts and celebration, American and German residents of Trier shared an eventful night together.The German-American Society of Trier invited

  • Aviano Air Base Hospital receives EPA's ENERGY STAR rating

    The Aviano Air Base Hospital recently received the Environmental Protection Agency's ENERGY STAR rating, the national symbol for superior energy efficiency and environmental protection. The base hospital is the first U.S. facility overseas to receive this distinction, and joins 96 other hospitals in

  • Incirlik exceeds CFC goal, still accepting donations

    Team Incirlik exceeded its goal for the 2009 Combined Federal Campaign that began Oct. 5 and officially wrapped up Dec. 11. "The men and women of the 39th Air Base Wing rose to the challenge during this campaign and surpassed our expectations with their generosity," said Col. Lawrence Gray, the 39th

  • Multinational wing completes first mission into Iraq

    A recent flight into Iraq marks another unit milestone for the multinational Heavy Airlift Wing based at Pápa Air Base, Hungary.The airlift into Iraq was a first by the wing comprised of 12 member nations and facilitated the deployment for members of the NATO Training Mission-Iraq."Each time we fly

  • Celebrities spend time with RAFL Airmen

    The holidays are a time when people notoriously put their best foot forward. It's a time when everyone's a little nicer, people give a little more and the good will of millions really shines through. That type of holiday goodwill shined through Dec. 11 at RAF Lakenheath, England, when entertainers

  • Sabers participate in 32nd Annual Bastogne Historic Walk

    Cold ears, foggy breath and muscle fatigue that 52nd Fighter Wing and geographically-separated units experienced in Bastogne, Belgium, may have been the only things they had in common with the Axis and Allies who walked through that same location more than 60 years ago.According to Ed Lapotsky,

  • CRG provides nonstop support for off-station training

    "Nonstop, no-off position" is a common phrase used to describe the 435th Contingency Response Group, and these words held true as the group participated in a 10-day training and exercise mission here.The CRG was one of numerous Ramstein units that participated in the exercise, Dec. 1 to 10 to help