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  • Airmen work 'round the clock to assist in humanitarian crisis

    Where am I flying? What is a C-17? Where is McGuire Air Force Base? Finding the answers to these simple yet difficult questions is the responsibility of four 352nd Special Operations Group members recently deployed from Royal Air Force Mildenhall, England to Larnaka, Cyprus. The four were sent to

  • Air Force crew diverted to help Americans departing from Lebanon

    After being in the desert for two months, C-17 loadmaster Senior Airman Kyle Williams expected the day to be just like every other. It was his 21st birthday and he and his fellow aircrew members from the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron already knew they'd be making five stops along a classified

  • 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