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  • Strength through diversity

    Today's Air Force is filled by a wide spectrum of diversity. Throughout the service, Airmen with different cultural, geographical and religious backgrounds contribute to ensure the Air Force continues to be the best Air Force in the world."Airmen from different cultures and backgrounds offer

  • USAFE volleyball teams compete in multi-national event

    The men's and women's U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa volleyball teams competed in the Headquarters Allied Air Command Inter-Nation Sports Programme Volleyball Championships in Amsterdam, March 25 - 27, 2014. The tournament brought together six NATO countries for a little friendly

  • US, Poland integrate flying capabilities

    Poland continues to build its relationship with the U.S. as both nations' air forces integrated their capabilities through training sorties in a joint theater capacity, April 1, 2014, for the first time since the arrival of U.S. aircraft and personnel to the U.S. Air Force Aviation Detachment 1

  • F-16 pilots shave 'craniums' to support late-pilot's son

    While most Airmen at the end of March were parting ways with the hair above their upper lip; a dozen pilots from the 510th Fighter Squadron were parting ways with the hair on their head. The F-16 pilots joined nearly 180 others to show support for a young boy who's battling kidney cancer and has

  • President Obama visits wounded warriors at Ramstein

    Air Force One touched down at Ramstein Air Base bringing President Barack Obama, to meet with some of America's heroes March 29.After a week of traveling through Europe and stopping in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the president made a short trip to Germany to meet with wounded warriors from the Landstuhl

  • Av-Det keeps U.S.-Polish training running smoothly

    "All the expectations you have for a normal assignment -- throw those out the window. We have to analyze who we have, what our guys bring to the table and what we can do to overcome any challenges thrown our way," said Maj. Micah Chollar, 52nd Operations Group, Detachment 1 director of operations.

  • Exercise Tonnerre Lightning 14-1: Refining the language of war

    British, French, and U.S. Airmen wrapped up the inaugural Exercise Tonnerre Lightning 14-1 here and other operating locations Friday. The tri-lateral exercise, which replicates a coalition response to a contingency operation, developed as a method for the U.S., the United Kingdom and France's air