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  • Ramstein Passenger Services aids U.S. citizens displaced from Lebanon

    Shortly after 2 a.m. July 23, the senior 435th Air Base Wing representative at the base passenger terminal surveyed the scene before him as more than 200 Americans displaced from Lebanon were stretched across seats, the floor and cots as they awaited transportation back to the United States. Then he

  • USAFE Supports Americans Leaving Lebanon

    Smiles, handshakes and hugs were exchanged as 130 Americans and family members of American citizens transited through Ramstein Air Base, Germany, and Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, July 21 and today. The authorized departees disembarked a C-17 Globemaster aircraft for a few hours at each of the U.S. Air

  • Team Incirlik lends helping hand to Americans fleeing Lebanon

    The scene inside of the processing center at 3:15 a.m. today looked like a deployment processing line. Except these weren’t military members waiting to go downrange they were the first American citizens who departed Lebanon processing into Incirlik Air Base. Twenty-nine tired men, women and children

  • Flight surgeons, medical techs kick it up a notch during Bulgaria exercise

    While at home station or at a deployed location, the goal of a flight surgeon or independent duty medical technician is to keep Airmen healthy. More than 200 Airmen from Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, deployed here for a trilateral exercise Immediate Response 2006 and rely on the flight

  • USAFE commander visits Lajes

    The commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe and his command chief visited here July 18-19. Throughout their stay, Gen. Tom Hobbins and Chief Master Sgt. Gary Coleman met with Lajes Airmen at various facilities and venues. Their schedule included stops at the flightline, the Top of the Rock Club, and

  • USAFE Command Center earns 'ACESes' for inspection

    The USAFE Command Center here earned outstanding results for their performance in the 2006 Joint Chiefs of Staff Assessment inspection. To commemorate this milestone and thank the team for its stellar performance, Gen. Tom Hobbins recently presented the COMUSAFE Airmen Committed to Excellence award

  • Lakenheath leads Air Force with SDB

    Four F-15E Strike Eagles, each loaded with the newest small diameter bombs in the Air Force inventory, GBU-39s, launched the first-ever operational training mission with the munitions from RAF Lakenheath Monday. The 494th Fighter Squadron aircrews tested the bomb’s capability and trained with the

  • USAFE pilots get MPEPed

    Officers from almost any specialty, and a few NCOs, can receive the opportunity to live and work the life of a foreign air force member through the Military Personnel Exchange Program (MPEP), which allows several nations to learn how each other's Air Force operates. Maj. P.K. Carlton, currently

  • USAFE reintegration program supports unit, individual redeployments

    The increasingly joint nature of Air Force deployments means that many U.S. Air Forces in Europe Airmen redeploy individually without unit formation homecomings or base-wide “welcome home” parties. For those Airmen, homecomings usually consist of the smiling faces of family members pressed up