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  • 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

  • COMUSAFE checks out air ops progress downrange

    The commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe visited bases in three countries July 4-7 to view progress made on Alliance/coalition command and control and force integration since his previous visits in February and May. Gen. Tom Hobbins traveled to Manas Air Base, Kyrgyzstan; Kabul, Afghanistan and

  • ACEUR commander lauds role of USAFE GSUs in England

    It was more than a year ago when the 501st Combat Support Wing stood up to provide better support for the seven geographically separated units in England. During a recent visit, Lt. Gen. Robert D. Bishop Jr., the Air Command Europe commander responsible for organizing, training and equipping the 10

  • Instructors teach Liberty Warriors new procedures

    Instructors from Ramstein Air Base, Germany, taught a dozen Liberty Wing Airmen handling procedures on the first small diameter munition to enter the Air Force inventory June 26 through 30 at the conventional maintenance building. The instructors trained the 48th Munitions Squadron maintenance crew

  • USAFE/CC revisits Manas, impressed with improvements

    Gen. Tom Hobbins, U.S. Air Forces in Europe commander and Allied Air Component Command, Ramstein commander visited an improved base on his stop here July 5. The general, who is also the director of the Joint Air Power Competency Center at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, last visited in February and was

  • COMUSAFE makes first trip to Africa

    As part of an effort to reach out and meet various military and defense leaders throughout the theater, Gen. Tom Hobbins, U.S. Air Forces in Europe commander, and Chief Master Sgt. Gary Coleman, USAFE command chief, visited Cape Verde, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco to forge relations and look for