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  • 48 CES support tri-base school operations

    The 48th Civil Engineer Squadron partnered with the Department of Defense Education Activity to ensure the Royal Air Force Lakenheath, Feltwell, and Mildenhall community’s students safely returned to school on Aug. 24, 2020.

  • Bombers, Marine F-35s join Point Blank 20-4 exercise

    RAF LAKENHEATH, United Kingdom— More than 50 aircraft from the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Marine Corps, the Royal Air Force, and the Royal Netherlands Air Force participated in Exercise Point Blank 20-04 over the North Sea, Sep. 10, 2020.

  • 100th ARW KC-135s support exercise Point Blank

    Multiple KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft assigned to the 100th Air Refueling Wing conducted aerial-refueling missions enabling exercise Point Blank over the North Sea, Sept. 10, 2020. The exercise involved U.S. Air Force, U.S. Marine Corps, Royal Air Force and Dutch aircraft and demonstrated the

  • SERE keeps aircrew on their toes

    Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape specialists are the Air Force’s foremost experts on surviving in the hostile and austere environments around the world.At Royal Air Force Mildenhall, SERE specialists train aircrew year round on survival tactics and procedures to use should they be forced to

  • 52nd FW Dirt Boyz repair flightline, prepare for winter ops

    Repairing the flightline is arguably one of the most mission-essential tasks for any Civil Engineer Squadron and Airfield Management career fields. On Sept. 5 and 10, Airmen from the 52nd CES pavements and construction equipment shop, also known as the Dirt Boyz, worked through the weekend and

  • USAFE Controller of the Year earns FAM flight

    U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Devon Kercher, assigned to the 31st Operations Support Squadron, was not only recently recognized as the 2019 U.S. Air Forces in Europe Air Traffic Controller of the Year, but he was also able to fly in one of the U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons he works with on a