A 'Day in the Life' at the largest U.S. Air Base in Europe

With 680,000 active-duty, Guard, Reserve and civilian Airmen on duty around the globe today delivering speed, range, flexibility, precision and payloads, effectively showing others what that looks like can be a challenge.To deliver on this challenge, the 86th Airlift Wing at Ramstein Air Base,

Space, the final frontier: RAF Alconbury hosts video conference with NASA astronaut

From education and training to future missions to Mars and even possible contact with extraterrestrials, students from the elementary, middle and high schools at RAF Alconbury, United Kingdom, asked questions and chatted with a NASA astronaut during a virtual conference, Sept. 23.U.S. Air Force Col.

MSG Airmen sharpen readiness skills

In order to ensure Airmen stay Forward, Ready, Now, more than 130 48th Mission Support Group Airmen participated in a three-day field training exercise Sept. 17-19."One of the things we were doing out here was building team morale and cohesiveness between the different units, bringing everybody

Surviving the altitude

Many issues may arise when flying as aircrew, including hypoxia, which can be life-threatening if the proper procedures are not taken to correct it.Hypoxia is rare, but we have special training, unlike any other base in USAFE to prepare for these types of emergencies. The 48th Aerospace Medical

Allies remember sacrifices; Operation Market Garden

End the war before Christmas was the plan in mind when American, British and Polish troops boarded aircraft and flew across the English Channel into the Netherlands to conduct Operation Market Garden on Sept. 17, 1944. The mission was an attempt to pierce the German defenses by capturing key

Lt. Col. Harman takes command of Aviation Detachment in Poland

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Jack Harman took command of Aviation Detachment 1, 52nd Operations Group at Lask Air Base, Poland, from U.S. Air Force Maj. Matthew Spears Sept. 18, 2014 after serving two years as the commander."You've dedicated a year of your lives to improve the mission to increase NATO

Bonds strengthened during Italian-American Friendship Festival

RAF Alconbury hosts multi-national POW/MIA remembrance run

It was his 23rd mission - flying directly over Hanoi, North Vietnam, Oct. 26, 1967. Everything was fine until "a Russian missile the size of a telephone pole came up."The sky was full of them, the U.S. Navy pilot said. It blew the right wing off his Douglas A-4 Skyhawk and sent him into an

Are you ACE'ing your wingmen?

September is when the U.S. observes Suicide Prevention Month and military members could be more at risk for suicide than others.Long deployments far away from loved ones, leaving family behind, a new home and way of life, long work hours and the sights of a deployed location could all have an effect

Ramstein jet draws crowds as part of total force team at AAD14

Hundreds of thousands people from all over the world gathered in line to see a C-130J Super Hercules from Ramstein Air Base, Germany, on display at the Africa Aerospace & Defence Expo here Sept. 20-21.The nine-Airman crew from the C-130J was part of a total-force team of Guard, Reserve and