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  • AF captain leads Normandy 'invasion'

    Timing, precision, guts and excellence; this is the mission commander.Taking more than 100 men and women from their home station and dropping them on a foreign piece of land with one main mission; getting the aircraft and people to the right places at the right times.One captain, who has been on

  • 48th CMS helps Airmen meet education goals

    "Knowledge is power." Airmen of the 48th Component Maintenance Squadron took the words of Sir Francis Bacon to heart when they started a new education initiative at RAF Lakenheath called "The Avionics University.""The Air Force is increasing its emphasis on education, both on duty and off, so I

  • Polish AF flies in Red Flag for first time

    Imagine boarding a C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft and making the flight across the Atlantic Ocean to a place where they speak a language that isn't your native language. This isn't your normal U.S. Air Force deployment, but actually a Polish Air Force deployment to Alaska to participate in Red

  • Estonian Prime Minister visits Saber Strike 2012

    Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip visited Airmen from the Michigan Air National Guard who were operating fighter and aerial refueling aircraft at the Amari Air Base in Estonia during Saber Strike 2012, an exercise based in Estonia and Latvia aimed at building partnership between the host nations

  • Michigan Air National Guard supports Saber Strike

    Michigan Air National Guard Airmen are supporting Exercise Saber Strike, a U.S. Army Europe-led theater security cooperation exercise conducted in the Baltic States of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.View the slideshow.

  • Mildenhall Senior NCO named one of AF 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year

    It takes a lot to be considered an outstanding Airman in today's U.S. Air Force. It takes even more to be considered one of the dozen elite enlisted members, hand-picked by Air Force leadership.Royal Air Force Mildenhall has had more than its share of superior Airmen over the years, and continues to

  • 419th LRS, Lajes train together

    Reservists with the 419th Logistics Readiness Squadron arrived at Lajes Field, Azores, Friday as part of a cooperative effort with the 65th Air Base Wing. Members of the 419th LRS will complete annual training during their temporary duty stay at Lajes, while the 65th LRS exercises its ability to

  • Team Lajes responds to truck fire, saves lives

    When Helder Silva first smelled the smoke, he didn't think that his fuel truck was on fire. "I smelled the smoke and thought someone was burning something," he said through an interpreter. Silva, a fuels specialist and a 31-year veteran of Lajes Field, was driving a C-300 refueling vehicle May 25,