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  • Boarders at Spangdahlem have new home

    Airmen around the base, along with the Spangdahlem Outdoor Recreation staff, volunteered their time to build a new skate park in the housing area here in an effort to boost morale."It has taken a couple of years, but finally we have a new park that anyone on the base can use for recreation," Outdoor

  • New 'MoneyU' financial program reduces impact on mission

    Similar to an unending need to stay healthy and be physically fit, many people sometimes wonder if the struggle for total financial success will ever end. There is good news. The Airman and Family Readiness Center's financial advisors, assigned to the 65th Force Support Squadron, here help members

  • Sharp communication needed for Operation Unified Protector

    As part of the NATO-led Operation Unified Protector, 313th Air Expeditionary Wing crews flying air refueling missions work with aircraft from several partner nations.Good communication is key to the air-refueling process. On any given sortie, tankers might be operating at different altitudes with

  • Lajes Field aids C-130...in the fight

    A C-130 Hercules from Cannon Air Force Base, N.M., refueled at Lajes Field, Azores, before heading downrange April 11."This is my seventh deployment in my five years of being in," said Staff Sgt. Jonathan Rogers, 16th Special Operations Squadron aerial gunner.Sergeant Rogers added that he picked the

  • 48th MDG garners another outstanding rating

    The list of the 48th Medical Group's achievements continues to grow with another "Outstanding" rating earned during the Health Services Inspection that took place March 28 - April 1. This culminates a year of achievements for the 48th MDG, whose other recent accomplishments include participating in

  • Combat fitness center announces new spouse hours

    The combat fitness center here recently announced that spouses have priority exercise hours from 9 to 11 a.m. weekdays."This is an exciting new opportunity for our spouses to utilize our combat fitness program," said Mark Geairn, 52nd Force Support Squadron fitness center director.The combat fitness

  • Kindergarteners respond to language immersion program

    Midterm results of the language immersion program, "English on the Doorstep," were released during an April 7 presentation to Rheinland-Pfalz Minister of the Interior, Karl Peter Bruch, and Brig. Gen. Mark Dillon, 86th Airlift Wing commander.The project compared two different techniques to teach the