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  • Energy as an operations enabler

    October is Energy Awareness Month, and the chosen theme is "New Culture: Energy as an Operations Enabler". I'm going to start off by asking you all a couple of questions. I'm sure you know the answers already.OK ... Here is your first question:How many of you as children or as you were growing up,

  • 'Candy bomber' visit reminds us of airlift's finest hour

    Retired Col. Gail Halvorsen, also known as the "Candy Bomber," is scheduled to visit the Kaiserslautern Military Community Oct. 15, 16 and 21 as part of a larger visit downrange. As part of his visit, we are honored to have him as a guest of our Air Force Ball celebrations. His attendance is made

  • Take care of our Air Force

    As I prepare to transition from active duty into "civilian" life, I've had the opportunity to reflect on my Air Force career and especially my time here at U.S. Air Forces in Europe. I want to share with you a few of my thoughts. I firmly believe USAFE is the best command in the Air Force! Why?

  • Londoners bid farewell

    What makes the villages of East Anglia, the region north of London, such centers of good will and kindness, and when will similarly-populated villages in Afghanistan rise to that level?There's no clear answer on the latter, only a continual struggle to bring peace to that region. However, here in

  • Land of setting sun

    Anxiety grows with each hour now - soon I must head to Afghanistan.Though seeing their father and husband off to war is a seemingly dismal thought in itself, the silver lining for my family is that they got to return to Okinawa, Japan, for the duration of my deployment.Recently, we made the 25-hour

  • Sept. 11 - a time to remember

    When Sept. 11 rolls around every year, I find myself again trying to put to rest the ghosts that resonate like church bells across the English countryside in my mind.It's been nine years since I heard our videographer Roland Leach call out from the studio at Robins Air Force Base, Ga., and we all

  • Enlisted development is key to building partnership capacity

    Noncommissioned officers are the backbone of our Air Force, and as we partner with developing nations and our NATO allies, it's vital that we collaborate in our NCO development efforts.This international military partnering directly supports U.S. Air Forces in Europe's priority of building

  • Dr. Woo's legacy of hope lives on

    With clenched fists and a heart full of anger, I read a breaking Associated Press story today about a woman I worked closely with on a humanitarian initiative a few months back, a doctor senselessly gunned down by terrorist insurgents.The attack happened after her team provided

  • Good, bad news in early USAFE fitness returns

    After a month of testing under the new USAF Fitness Tables, there is both bad news and good news in U.S. Air Forces in Europe. The bad news is that in more than 2,000 tests administered in the month of July, our failure rate is approximately 23 percent. The good news is that a significant number of

  • Thanks for a job well done

    Warriors and Wingmen! I can never say thank you enough to each and every Airman at Team Ramstein for their contributions to our Wing and the incredible feats we accomplish every day.Feats such as being USAFE's only airlift, airdrop and aeromedical evacuation operations flying the C-20H, C-21, C-37,