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  • Spangdahlem Airmen prepare for Eifel Thunder

    Airmen from the 606th Air Control Squadron here are preparing for Eifel Thunder May 9-16. Eifel Thunder is a field exercise in which Airmen take all of their equipment to a simulated deployed location to live and work as if they are on a real deployment."This is getting our experience level way up

  • Aviano children experience deployment line

    Children from the Aviano elementary and middle schools experienced a simulated deployment line May 5 at the Personnel Alert Holding Area, here. "It's something we do so we can help the kids understand what their mom and dad go through before and during a deployment," said Master Sgt. Jamie Kitchen,

  • OSI agents support diverse medical exercise in the Congo

    Starting April 25 and ending May 5 more than 60 U.S. Air Force active duty, National Guard and Reserve members along with 150 members of the Congolese military had been working hand-in-hand in the aeromedical evacuation exercise titled MEDLITE 11 here. This joint endeavor, located in the unstable

  • Aviano Airmen participate in the Electronics Expo

    The 31st Fighter Wing participated in a three-day Electronics Expo to enhance partnerships between the men and women of Aviano Air Base and the local community April 29 to May 1 in Pordenone, Italy.Airmen assigned to the 31st Communications Squadron, 31st Security Forces Squadron, 603rd Air Control

  • Hungarians inspect wing for treaty compliance

    The 52nd Fighter Wing was the subject of two treaty compliance exercises inspected by Hungarian arms control service members here May 3. "This is the first time any base in the U.S. Air Forces in Europe [command] has underwent two of these exercises in the same day," David Ehnis, 52nd FW treaty

  • Spangdahlem juggles TDYs, deployments

    Every Airman has experienced the daunting task of juggling calendar events to keep temporary duties, deployments and leave dates from conflicting and can probably imagine the undertaking this must be for a frequently tasked fighter wing.This is the charge of the 52nd Fighter Wing - from building

  • WPC renovation enhances warfigther training

    Most renovation projects can cost thousands of dollars. However, one organization here started a project that has already saved them nearly a quarter of a million dollars annually - and they're only in phase one. For nearly three decades, the U.S. Air Forces in Europe Warrior Preparation Center has

  • Thracian Spring 2011: preserving U.S., Bulgarian partnerships

    Airmen from Team Ramstein's 86th Airlift Wing and 435th Air Ground Operations Wing, as well as U.S. Army jumpmasters teamed with Bulgarian armed forces to conduct Exercise Thracian Spring 2011 April 26 to May 6 here. The bilateral training exercise brought U.S. and Bulgarian military forces together