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  • K9 Airman on recovery track after surgery

    Soma blinked her eyes as she groggily awoke after a four-hour surgery to correct a compressed spinal disk. She looked over at the man lying in a cot in her post-operation room. He was by her side as he had been for months, taking care of her, looking out for her and being her friend and partner

  • Filmmaker honors service women's sacrifice

    "I'm coming home, I'm coming home. Tell the world I'm coming home." As the song fades, along with an image of a uniformed woman hugging her young son, JulieHera DeStefano watched as an audience of Airmen silently wiped away tears and took a collective deep breath in. Aviano Airmen were given the

  • 5K for Phil

    The RAF Lakenheath 3rd Annual Phil Myers Memorial 5K was held April 4, 2013, exactly four years to the day after Myers gave his life in defense of his nation while deployed to Afghanistan.More than 150 Airmen, friends and family came out to support the event. "This is the third year we have done the

  • "Never Again": 65th Air Base Wing remembers the Holocaust

    The 65th Air Base Wing at Lajes Field held a formal ceremony here in honor of the National Holocaust Days of Remembrance April 8. The formal ceremony was preceded by a four-hour name-reading and candle-light vigil honoring Holocaust victims. Keynote speaker, Master Sgt. William Church, 65th

  • REEP slated to save $600K annually

    The Resident Energy Efficiency Program is currently being implemented across military family housing at RAF Lakenheath and is slated to be implemented at RAFs Mildenhall and Feltwell following a successful trial phase. The three-month trial compared REEP participants' utility costs to

  • Air Traffic Control mom balances career, family

    "The doctor called her a miracle baby," said Tech. Sgt. Jennifer Rowles of her three-year-old daughter, Emma.Not expecting she would ever conceive a child due to medical reasons, Rowles, 31st Operation Support Squadron NCO in charge of air traffic controller training and standardization, and a