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  • USAFE names individual mobilization augmentee award winners

    U.S. Air Forces in Europe recently announced the winners of the command's 2004 Individual Mobilization Augmentee awards. The winners are: Outstanding Officer IMA: Maj. Doris Schwartz, USAFE Air Mobility Operations Control Center, Ramstein Air Base, Germany Outstanding Enlisted IMA: Tech. Sgt.

  • USAFE announces transportation, traffic management award winners

    U.S. Air Forces in Europe recently announced the winners of the command's 2004 National Defense Transportation Association Unit and Military Traffic Management Command awards. The winners are: National Defense Transportation Association Unit Award: 48th Logistics Readiness Squadron, Royal Air Force

  • USAFE names logistics award winners

    U.S. Air Forces in Europe recently announced the winners of the command's 2004 General Thomas P. Gerrity Logistics awards in the unit and individual categories. Award winners are: General Thomas P. Gerrity Logistics Unit Award: 100th Logistics Readiness Squadron, Royal Air Force Mildenhall, England

  • USAFE announces weather award winners

    U.S. Air Forces in Europe recently announced the winners of the command's 2004 Weather Awards. The winners are: Outstanding Field Grade Officer: Maj. Jeffrey Shull, USAFE Operational Weather Squadron, Sembach Air Base, Germany Outstanding Company Grade Officer: Capt. Robert M. Dominguez, 32nd Air

  • Unit deployment managers ensure readiness

    Described by Maj. Jeffrey Lingens, RAF Mildenhall’s Installation Deployment Officer, as the squadron lifeline to deployment processes anywhere, unit deployment managers are tasked with ensuring their unit’s troops and cargo are ready for deployment. “Ask any commander who has a deployment mission,

  • AF family offers support in times of trouble

    From the moment you meet him, you just can’t help liking Zachary Moore. Whether it’s the way he looks at you with his huge blue-green eyes, or dazzles you with his cheeky grin, this young man certainly has the ladies wrapped around his little finger. Watching him kicking his ball around with such

  • Don't be afraid to show your scars, seek help from others

    I can’t remember the blood. There must have been a lot of it, but I can’t see it. Funny, how the brain, especially that of a small child, blocks memories too horrific to comprehend. It was the early summer of 1961, in the late afternoon. The air was thick with the smell of fresh hewn spring onions

  • USAFE libraries sponsoring bookmark design contest

    U. S. Air Forces in Europe Libraries and Project Wizard are sponsoring a Bookmark Design Contest April 1-30 to celebrate National Library Week and the Month of the Military Child. The contest is open to local artists in kindergarten through grade 12. Top winners in each category will have their

  • Live-fire Creek Defender convoy prepares security forces Airmen

    Members from the 786th Security Forces Squadron here proved their grit alongside more than 80 U.S. Air Forces in Europe security forces Airmen at a first-ever convoy and static position live-fire event March 14 at Baumholder Military Training Range, Baumholder, Germany. The 786th Regional Training

  • Spangdahlem units break sortie record

    Several squadrons got a chance to flex their muscle during a recent surge here March 6-10, setting a new daily record of 70 sorties and a total four-day record of 273 sorties. The surge provided an opportunity for the 22nd Aircraft Maintenance Unit, the 22nd Fighter Squadron, the 52nd Aircraft