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  • SecAF visits Incirlik Air Base

    Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley visited with Airmen here during a visit to Turkey Dec. 19-21.Donley toured multiple units throughout the base, to include the Medical Group, Logistics Readiness Squadron, Operations Squadron, and the Incirlik Unit School. The secretary also dined with Team

  • CJCS presents Purple Heart to Ramstein Airman

    Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin E. Dempsey presented a Purple Heart medal to a Ramstein Airman at a town hall meeting Dec. 19 during the chairman's visit here.The general presented the oldest and highest honor given to service members for wounds received in combat to Tech. Sgt.

  • CJCS visits Ramstein, addresses future concerns

    Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey visited Airmen at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, today as part of a five country, six-day-tour that included the mission completion ceremony in Iraq.During part of his first USO holiday tour as chairman, the general presented a Purple

  • Aeronautica Militare Italia visits RAF Mildenhall, showcases new tanker

    International relations were flying high Dec. 9, as the Italian Air Force arrived at RAF Mildenhall.A crew from Aeronautica Militare Italia, 14th Wing, Pratica Di Mare (Rome), visited RAF Mildenhall on a training mission. While at RAF Mildenhall, the Italian crew allowed aviators from the 100th Air

  • HAW reaches 6,000 flight hours

    After 29 months of operation by the multinational Heavy Airlift Wing team, U.S. Air Force Major Brian Nicosia and his flightcrew passed the 6,000 flight-hours milestone of C-17 Globemaster IIIs assigned to Papa Air Base, Hungary. The aircraft crew was on its way towards Ankara, Turkey, on a Polish

  • F-16 pilot reaches 4,000 flight hours, inspires others

    Only 33 pilots in the 20-year history of the F-16 Fighting Falcon have reached 4,000 flying hours in the aircraft until Dec. 14.Lt. Col. Brian Egger, 480th Fighter Squadron F-16 pilot, became the 34th pilot to do so Dec. 14 reaching more than 4,000 flight hours in the aircraft. "This is very rare,"

  • Airmen showcase fighter-wing mission to SACEUR, EUCOM commander

    The commander of U.S. European Command and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe visited with Airmen here Dec. 14 as part of a familiarization tour. U.S. Navy Adm. Jim Stavridis saw the unique capabilities the 52nd Fighter Wing provides to the European theater of operations and learned about some of

  • AFN says goodbye to military's first overseas TV station

    It was the year the Soviet Union stopped demanding war reparations from East Germany, Marilyn Monroe married baseball player Joe DiMaggio, the U.S. Congress and President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized the founding of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado, and the war with Vietnam was

  • Wreaths Across America commemorated in U.K.

    This year marks the first occasion upon which members of the 48th Fighter Wing and American Battle Monuments Commission have combined to hold a formal ceremony for Wreaths Across America at Madingley American Cemetery.The event on Dec. 10, 2011, coincided with similar ceremonies across the U.S.

  • Personnel recovery more than single tactical event

    Headquarters United States Air Forces in Europe and HQ Third Air Force hosted a Joint Personnel Recovery Agency mobile training team here Dec. 5 through Dec. 14 to prepare service members for personnel recovery missions.More than 175 people from a variety of specialties and backgrounds took part in