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  • Congratulations to 2014 USAFE/Air Force award winners

    Congratulations to the following 2014 award winners:A1 Annual AwardsForce Support Field Grade Officer of the Year--------Maj. Michael D. McGrath, 52nd Force Support SquadronSpecialist of the Year--------Krista J. Mann, 52nd Force Support SquadronFlight Chief of the Year--------Ms. Angela

  • Tool to safeguard PII scheduled for December rollout AF wide

    The Digital Signature Enforcement Tool is scheduled for Air Force-wide integration Dec. 5, providing Microsoft Outlook email users with an interactive, automated virtual assistant to help ensure the security of personally identifiable information"I can't overstate the operational importance of

  • How to save the world

    Americans recycled only 87 million of the 251 million tons of trash generated in 2012, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.The amount of garbage increases every year, making it easy to see how the distant, but not so unrealistic, future world from the movie WALL-E can come to

  • Innovate or Bust: egress gets a makeover

    "I'm about to break your egress shop, sir. Is that okay?"Master Sgt. Kenneth Kelly, 48th Component Maintenance Squadron accessories flight superintendent, admitted it was nerve-racking asking Maj. Mark Gray, 48th CMS commander, about implementing innovative, yet radical, changes to maximize the

  • Lajes Airmen experience unique deployment

    Even though personnel at Lajes are ready to deploy at a moment's notice, it is not something that happens regularly. Currently, seven members of the 65th Security Forces Squadron are deployed to Kosovo tasked to protect an intelligence hub.According to Maj. Carlos Hernandez, 65th SFS commander, this

  • To innovate, we can't be afraid to fail

    "Throughout history, people with new ideas - who think differently and try to change things - have always been called troublemakers." - Richelle Mead, author.The Air Force is pushing hard for us to innovate. You hear it when our senior leaders give speeches or post articles imploring us to improve.

  • Airman returns from front lines of fight against Ebola

    Before many volunteers could begin fighting Ebola in West Africa, U.S. Air Force Maj. Francis Obuseh was on the ground in Monrovia, Liberia, paving the way for safe execution of their mission.As an epidemiologist and international health specialist for the U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces

  • Finance tops USAFE metrics 2 years running

    The 65th Comptroller Flight has done it again. They are the top performers in U.S. Air Forces Europe for the second year in a row in metrics that are tracked monthly."Out of the eight bases in USAFE for Fiscal Year 14, we totaled 96 out of 100 points," said 2nd Lt. Eric Artman, 65th CPTF financial