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  • Ambitions for a better lifestyle

    Twenty-four Airmen from the 48th Aerospace Medicine Squadron volunteered to work with Healthy Ambitions at the Suffolk Show, a countywide event featuring agricultural and local business displays, May 29-30.Healthy Ambitions and the 48th AMDS combined efforts to promote and educate the community on

  • OSI strives for truth

    "The Office of Special Investigations exists to defend the nation, serve justice, protect the integrity of the Air Force and find the truth," said Special Agent Timothy Olive, Air Force OSI Detachment 512 Air Force special agent in-charge."These ideas serve as our 'true north' as we move to take on

  • Memorial marks lives lost 70 years ago at RAF Alconbury

    Nineteen members of the United States Army Air Force 95th Bombardment Group who lost their lives 70 years ago where honored during the dedication of a memorial plaque in their honor at Alconbury Airfield May 27.The event commemorated the day when, at about 8:30 p.m. May 27, 1943, USAAF ground

  • American, Portuguese students share experiences through exchange program

    As part of an annual student-exchange program, American and Portuguese students from the island of Terceira in grades 7 through 11 visited the other's schools to experience the two cultures' education system and to build upon intercultural relationships.The Thomas Borba School, a public school in

  • New commander takes reins of 31st Fighter Wing

    Nearly 1,000 Team Aviano members and friends packed into Hangar 3 to greet a new commander as he accepted the reins of the 31st Fighter Wing during a ceremony here May 30.Presiding over the event, Lt. Gen. Craig A. Franklin, 3rd Air Force commander, passed the wing colors to Brig. Gen. Jon A. Norman

  • "Healing Peru" - Lajes doctor, Airmen trek to Peru to aid indigenous people

    Many people only dream of opportunities to participate in humanitarian projects assisting indigenous people in faraway lands.On May 31, 15 Airmen and civilian medical professionals will live out that dream by traveling to the rural highlands of the Andes Mountains in Peru to participate in a medical