100th SFS Defenders help prep RAF Regiment for Afghanistan tour

The sweet smell of diesel exhaust began to fill the pitch-black air as Airmen started their Humvees an hour before daylight and began to convoy out to their rendevous point with a flight of Royal Air Force Regiment infantrymen in the middle of a 30,000-acre range.The first full field day of Exercise

Ramstein Civilians make complex C-21 engine swap

Civilian contractors from DynCorp International began replacing a C-21 aircraft engine Sept. 10 here that is projected to be completed by Sept. 16.Usually an engine conversion is done meeting time-change requirements after 1400 hours of run time, but this engine is being changed due to an

MEDCEUR classes set stage for success

Tents, medical supplies and field hospitals stand ready for the moulaged patients of live mass casualty exercise scenarios at MEDCEUR '10, Medical Training Exercise in Central & Eastern Europe 2010. The medical personnel who will spring into action during these scenarios are 400 yards away in

US, Portuguese Airmen honor 9-11 ceremony at Lajes Field

Airmen of the 65th Air Base Wing were joined by their Portuguese counterparts during a solemn Sept. 11 ceremony held at Lajes Field to pay tribute to those who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.American and Portuguese Airmen representing firefighters, law enforcement and emergency medical

Air Force 63 years young

Team Aviano celebrated the Air Force's 63rd birthday in style with an Air Force ball held at the La Bella Vista Club Sept. 10.The event which honored the anniversary of the Air Force becoming its own branch in the U.S. military on Sept. 18, 1947, provided a special social occasion for the Air Force

The Marine and the Master: PRP sergeant faces off against Montenegrin chess champ

Bozidar Ivanovic was named the chess champion of Montenegro 17 times. He placed first in more than 14 international tournaments. In 1977, he earned the title of Chess Grand Master. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Chris Mitchell was a member of his high school chess team during his freshman year. He averaged

Instructor steps up

Soldiers teach MEDCEUR lessons -- feature

Most participants in the Medical Training Exercise in Central & Eastern Europe deploy from Europe-based units.One group of soldiers, however, comes all the way from New York.The seven-member U.S. Army Civil-Military Operations team, based at Fort Wadsworth, N.Y., supports MEDCEUR by teaching

MEDCEUR10 holds sports day

Veteran Airmen return home Sept. 11

Two World War II veteran Airmen and their guests visited former 100th Bombardment Group airfield, Thorpe Abbotts in Norfolk, England, Sept. 11.Retired Capts. Robert Shoens, pilot of the B-17 'Our Gal Sal,' and Robert Wolff, former 100th Bomb Group prisoner of war, were accompanied by Robert Shoens