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  • 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

  • General surprises sergeant who stepped up

    Not everyone has a boss who travels across continents to tell them what a great job they're doing.Staff Sgt. Scott Richard deployed from Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, to Kandahar Airfield. When the commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe, Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, visited the airfield, Richard

  • U.S. service members, FARDC make final push to exercise finale

    After a week of classroom training, members of the Democratic Republic of the Congo armed forces (FARDC) quick response force (UMIR) and U.S. service members participating in MEDLITE 11 began training on a Georgia Air National Guard C-130 Hercules here, May 2.Relocating from the Centre Superior

  • Photo Essay: Culture day in the Congo for medical exercise members

    U.S Air Force active duty, National Guard and Reserve members along with Congolese military members spend a day in the Congo mountains here, April 30, as part of a culture day during the two-week MEDLITE 11 exercise. MEDLITE 11 is a joint medical exercise focused on aeromedical evacuation, to