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  • USAFE names PA achievement award winners

    U.S. Air Forces in Europe recently announced the winners of the command’s 2004 Public Affairs achievement awards. The Director’s Excellence awards are presented annually to organizations judged to have the best overall public affairs programs in support of the Air Force mission. The USAFE Director’s

  • USAFE announces 2004 medical service awards

    U.S. Air Forces in Europe recently announced the 2004 USAFE-level Medical Service Awards. The winners are: Health Service Management Airman of the Year: Senior Airman Roxanne Vallesteros, 435th Medical Group, Ramstein Air Base, Germany Health Service Management Noncommissioned Officer of the Year:

  • USAFE announces 2004 safety awards

    U.S. Air Forces in Europe recently announced the 2004 USAFE Safety Awards. The winners are: Outstanding Unit Safety Award, Cat I: 52nd Fighter Wing, Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany Outstanding Unit Safety Award, Cat II: 86th Air Wing, Ramstein Air Base, Germany Flight Safety Officer of the Year: Capt.

  • Following fire safety rules can save your life, help responders

    Fire is one of mankind’s greatest friends. Fire keeps us warm, cooks our food and provides us light. In the past, it kept predators at bay and forged our weapons, tools and transportation. Fire allowed us to find our loved ones wandering in the woods, and it still burns in memory of those we have

  • USAFE names manpower and organization award winners

    U.S. Air Forces in Europe recently announced the winners of the command's 2004 Manpower and Organization Awards for Professional Excellence. These individuals and teams are recognized for outstanding contributions in transforming the command organizationally and resolving significant manpower

  • Silver Flag: Airmen 'deploy,' establish bare base

    Through rain, sleet, snow and sunshine — all four often within 10 minutes of each other — 24 Mildenhall Airmen joined other U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air National Guard members in turning a barren plain of dirt into a base suitable for working, sleeping, eating and bathing. The training for

  • The love of the game

    He is quiet and cool tempered at home, at work and with the boys he teaches hockey to. His opponents would never know this tempered demeanor by his skill and aggressiveness on the ice. Bobby Shearer, 48th Munitions Squadron, coaches, referees and plays in various local Anglo-American hockey leagues.

  • NCO speaks on balancing life

    I have an idea for a combat program that could be adopted across the full Air Force spectrum. I call it, “Combat CHOICE,” because everything you or I do is about choices. We choose to do the right things or the wrong things. We choose how to spend our time, what our attitude will be, and what level

  • USAFE contracting supports Namibian multipurpose center

    U.S. Air Forces in Europe Contracting recently teamed with the U.S. European Command and the U.S. Embassy, Windhoek, Namibia, to complete an extension to the Ongwediva Town Hall in Namibia worth more than $282,000. The construction project, which began August 2004 and was completed Feb. 4, increases

  • First AF synagogue, mosque breaks ground

    Chaplains and base leadership here gathered at the Ramstein Southside Chapel to celebrate the beginnings of the Air Force’s first Jewish-Islamic interfaith annex during a groundbreaking ceremony Feb. 17. The $535,000 addition to the Southside Chapel includes two rooms that will serve as Jewish and