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  • Servicemembers support Team USA during 2012 Olympic, Paralympic Games

    More than 300 members from U.S. Visiting Forces military bases across the United Kingdom volunteered to help the U.S. Olympic Committee in preparation for the upcoming 2012 Olympic Games. Volunteers, including active duty service members, civilian employees and family members, signed up for

  • First lady visits RAF Mildenhall, meets military families

    Military families stationed in the United Kingdom had the opportunity to meet the first lady of the United States July 29, 2012, before she returned home after attending the opening ceremonies of the London 2012 Olympics.Michelle Obama took about 30 minutes here to personally meet more than 150

  • Heavy Airlift Wing Champions Partnerships; marks 3rd Anniversary

    The vision three years ago was to bring twelve nations together with a common goal and commitment to bring Strategic Airlift Capability to allies across the globe.After more than 7,500 flying hours, 500 missions, 20,000 pounds of cargo delivered and 27,000 passengers the Heavy Airlift Wing who

  • 86th Aeromedical Evacuation mission with the HAW

    U.S. Air Force members from the 86th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, flew an aeromedical training mission on a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft from the Heavy Airlift Wing in Papa, Hungary, to Tbilisi, Georgia, July 25, 2012. The mission marked the first aeromedical

  • Tactical training exercise builds partnerships

    Approximately 260 members of the 81st Fighter Squadron along with members of the U.S. Marine Corps, Royal Air Force and Romanian air force's 71st Air Fotilla are training with one another in Exercise Dacian Thunder to strengthen capabilities as combined forces in contingency operations throughout

  • US, Romania train together, improve CSAR

    Her aircraft was downed in a field near Campia Turzii. She was alone with no food or water -- only her survival skills and equipment. She found a safe site in bushes to take cover, made a signal for her rescue and established contact with her comrades in the air.A-10 Thunderbolt IIs pilots of 81st

  • Reservists practice mission essential skills with 65th LRS

    Reservists normally work one weekend a month plus two weeks a year. For their two-week training this year, 40 Reserve Airmen from Westover Air Reserve Base, Mass., deployed to Lajes Field to work with the 65th Logistics Readiness Squadron. "Working one weekend a month doesn't give us a lot of

  • U.K.'s "Friendly Invasion" 70 years on

    During his childhood, Clive Stevens would gaze up in awe at a small B-17 Flying Fortress model that sat on top of a bookcase in his home. "It obviously gave me a deep-rooted interest in the airplane," said Stevens. Over the years, his fascination grew to include not only the U.S. aircraft but the