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  • AFAF helps Mildenhall Airmen get through tough times

    Tragedy rarely strikes at a convenient time, and it can be even tougher to handle with military members and their families who are stationed overseas.The Air Force Assistance Fund lends critical support to fellow Airmen and their families - active duty and retired, officers and enlisted, enabling

  • Logistical tour leaves Airmen hungry for more

    What do Air Force logistics officers, an Italian family-run business and endless mozzarella cheese have in common?Pizza.The Air Force is constantly faced with ever-changing obstacles that require outside-the-box, or rather, outside-the-crust thinking. To help get in that mindset, 31st Logistics

  • USAFE-AFAFRICA recognizes 2015's Outstanding Airmen of the Year

    During the U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa annual awards ceremony here March 17, Gen. Frank Gorenc, USAFE-AFAFRICA commander, and Chief Master Sgt. James E. Davis, USAFE-AFAFRICA command chief, recognized the best Airmen in the command for 2015.The awards recognize Airmen for

  • AMC commander, command chief visit 521st AMOW

    Gen. Carlton D. Everhart, Air Mobility Command commander, and Chief Master Sgt. Shelina Frey, AMC command chief, visited Airmen from the 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing March 9 through 10.The visit gave Everhart and Frey a chance to see how 521st AMOW Airmen expedite the Air Force's global reach

  • Mother's dream inspired next generation

    RAF MILDENHALL, England -- Many people live each day with their families, sharing daily plans over breakfast, highlighting their day over dinner and sharing tears of sadness and laughter of joy. But most grow up knowing nothing of the dreams of their parents who brought them into the world.For one

  • Senior Airman BTZ? Be the 'Wolf!'

    There are three meetings I attend every week, and they're the most important meetings in my current job. The first is Wing Stand-Up, held three days a week, where we cover the status of our aircrew, pararescuemen, all 81 combat aircraft, the airfield, communications and logistics. Our mission is

  • Pave Hawks: The Key to CSAR

    The 56th Rescue Squadron provides rapid, deployable, worldwide combat search and rescue in support of humanitarian assistance, non-combatant evacuation and disaster relief capability for the U.S. European Command combatant commander and the Joint Chiefs of Staff in peacetime."Because of the nature

  • Training to perfection

    Whizzing through the air, an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter pilot flies high above the earth.Suddenly, the engine stops turning the rotor, and the helicopter begins descending back down to the ground.The pilot remains calm and lets the Pave Hawk drop before letting the engine turn the main rotor again

  • B-52s homeward bound after European exercises conclude

    B-52 Stratofortresses from Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, set a course for home Sunday after concluding their role in several European military exercises.The B-52s and more than 250 Airmen had been temporarily relocated to Spain to facilitate their participation in the two large joint-military

  • RAF Mildenhall Airman risks everything, upholds legacy of valor

    The May 12, 2014 trip to RAF Mildenhall started off as it would have on any other day. He pulled out of the driveway just after the sun began to set at 9:40 p.m. and began making the exact same turns he had done time and time again.An hour earlier than his usual departure time, Staff Sgt. Vicente