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  • French Air Force: Immeasurable support to OEF, ISAF

    Drawings and mural paintings line the walls of the French operations area on the flightline here - remembrances from every French Air Force group deployed to Kandahar Airfield over the last five years.French jet fighters were originally deployed to Manas, Kyrgyzstan, in 2002, then to Dushanbe,

  • 31st FW nears 60th anniversary of pioneering operation

    Sixty years ago, the 31st Fighter Wing was a young wing in a young Air Force, and the technologies taken for granted today were in their infancy. Sixty years ago this week, the wing was directly involved in pioneering the use of aerial refueling to fly masses of fighter aircraft over the Pacific

  • New USAFE vice commander arrives

    Maj. Gen. Noel T. Jones officially assumed his new position as the U.S. Air Forces in Europe vice commander here today.Jones has been selected for promotion and will pin on the rank of lieutenant general in August. "It is a privilege and an honor to be selected as the vice commander for USAFE,"

  • Air and space ops continue as leadership changes

    RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany -- As its Airmen maintained their 24-hour vigil at their terminals while ensuring a constant overwatch of air and space operations over Europe and Africa, the 603rd Air and Space Operations center changed its leadership in a ceremony today here at Hangar 1.Col. Jeffrey

  • Polish AF flies in Red Flag for first time

    Imagine boarding a C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft and making the flight across the Atlantic Ocean to a place where they speak a language that isn't your native language. This isn't your normal U.S. Air Force deployment, but actually a Polish Air Force deployment to Alaska to participate in Red

  • Estonian Prime Minister visits Saber Strike 2012

    Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip visited Airmen from the Michigan Air National Guard who were operating fighter and aerial refueling aircraft at the Amari Air Base in Estonia during Saber Strike 2012, an exercise based in Estonia and Latvia aimed at building partnership between the host nations

  • Michigan Air National Guard supports Saber Strike

    Michigan Air National Guard Airmen are supporting Exercise Saber Strike, a U.S. Army Europe-led theater security cooperation exercise conducted in the Baltic States of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.View the slideshow.

  • Mildenhall Senior NCO named one of AF 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year

    It takes a lot to be considered an outstanding Airman in today's U.S. Air Force. It takes even more to be considered one of the dozen elite enlisted members, hand-picked by Air Force leadership.Royal Air Force Mildenhall has had more than its share of superior Airmen over the years, and continues to

  • Team Lajes responds to truck fire, saves lives

    When Helder Silva first smelled the smoke, he didn't think that his fuel truck was on fire. "I smelled the smoke and thought someone was burning something," he said through an interpreter. Silva, a fuels specialist and a 31-year veteran of Lajes Field, was driving a C-300 refueling vehicle May 25,