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  • High school students cross into the blue

    Patrick Barone, Lakenheath High School junior ROTC drill team flight commander, bought his first 10-pound M1 Garand ceremonial rifle as a freshman to use with the drill team. He wanted a challenge and professional edge that the 3-pound wood rifles didn’t provide. The detachment followed his lead and

  • Space A allows dependent travel

    Since November 2005, personnel stationed in Turkey have been under a tight restriction limiting Space-Available travel to permanent party and their command sponsored dependents. However, the current policy has been changed to be made more lenient for everyone stationed at Incirlik, Izmir Air

  • Volunteers plant trees, future

    Whether its love or just flowers, spring is the time for things to bloom. To celebrate the season of growth Aviano volunteers gave their time to help the Giais Elementary School students plant trees in the local community Saturday. About 200 volunteers, including local residents and base members,

  • Aviano schools evaluated for accreditation

    Aviano’s Department of Defense Dependents’ School will be put to the test April 24-28. A team of five evaluators from the North Central Association’s Commission on Schools will visit here to assess the school for accreditation. All DoDDS schools are reviewed every five years and this will be the

  • Security forces lieutenant goes to the dogs

    Military working dogs and their handlers routinely train for mission success, be it in explosives or drug detection, but what happens when the dogs retire from active-duty service? The Department of Defense allows MWDs no longer capable of performing their military duties to be adopted and one

  • Aviano member builds a better body

    Last October Tech. Sgt. Delana Jemison, one of Aviano’s own, took second place at the 2005 U.S. Forces Morale, Welfare and Recreation Bodybuilding Championship in Kaiserslautern, Germany. This October, she said she’ll be heading back to the championship to take first. Sergeant Jemison, assigned to

  • Base leadership asks for opinions, suggestions

    Some Aviano members can expect to see something more interesting than junk mail and Telecom bills in their mailboxes soon. The Air Force and base leadership are interested in knowing what Aviano members need and what they think about community issues. To help them get their opinions heard, the 2006

  • USAF Academy Saber Drill Team cadets work with 52nd FW team to hone skills

    Eleven U.S. Air Force Academy Saber Drill Team cadets visited Spangdahlem this week to work with the 52nd Fighter Wing team they helped train last year, the only one of its kind in U.S. Air Forces in Europe. Since the team’s inception last April, they have performed for the Secretary of the Air

  • Keeping fit, healthy the safe way

    Passing by the commissary, base exchange or shoppette magazine racks near the check out stations at least three magazine covers portray a bikini-clad body urging readers to pick up the paper and find out how to look like the model. This is an all-to-common center of focus for men and women around

  • Comm unit keeps Lajes connected

    Every building has a communications closet and most likely uses it for a purpose other than what it should be used for. It is the duty of the 65th Communications Squadron Infrastructure Shop to maintain all the equipment in those racks. “Our job is to make sure that all the wall boxes on base are