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  • 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

  • El Toro Rojo Dos a success

    More than 85 Airmen from the 86th Airlift Wing, the 435th Contingency Response Group, and five Soldiers from the 5th Quartermaster Company traveled here for El Toro Rojo Dos, Dec. 11.The two-week off-station training began Dec. 12, and is scheduled to end Dec. 22. This is the first time in two years

  • 48th MDG trains to maintain readiness

    The 48th Medical Group took part in a week-long mobile Expeditionary Medical Support [EMEDS] training at RAF Feltwell Dec. 5 - 9 to maintain and test readiness capabilities. Sixty seven members were trained by 11 EMEDS instructors on how to care for patients under emergency scenarios and to set up a

  • USAFE releases AIB report on F-15E crash in Libya

    United States Air Forces in Europe officials released the results of their investigation into the March 21 crash in Libya of an F-15E Strike Eagle as it performed combat operations enforcing the United Nations mandated no-fly zone established for Operation Odyssey Dawn. At the conclusion of the