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  • After The Battle: the medical gateway

    Editor's Note: This is the fifth in a six-part series about medical response capabilities for deployed service members from start to finish and the various milestones for care and transportation of combat-wounded troops throughout Afghanistan.Finally, the wounded warrior is out of Afghanistan. The

  • Colonel, lieutenant serve on Weekend Duty

    Col. Matt Humes and 2nd Lt. John McKinney started the band, Weekend Duty, during a News Year Eve party. Last year they played more than 32 performance in various locations. They support the local community and Airmen by playing at venues like the Coffee Mill and events like the Annual Awards

  • Our Diverse Force: From Cuba to America and beyond through music

    Poverty can be tragic, but sometimes there are greater injustices one must endure."Ever since I can remember, we were trying to get out of Cuba. It is one of the saddest things that happened there; it is not the poverty - there is poverty everywhere in the world. It is how you can get into

  • Incirlik Innovation: Deployed Airman gets more bang for buck

    Editor's note: "This is the first article in a series highlighting innovative ideas, programs and actions that have or can save the Air Force money as well as improve mission readiness."Both birds and aircraft in flight are a wonderful thing -- except when their paths cross. Bird strikes are one of

  • What's your role? Air control!

    Members of the 606th Air Control Squadron deployed to Southwest Asia in support of Operation Enduring Freedom July 2013. When they departed, Airman 1st Class Alex Lollar, a radio frequencies transmissions systems technician from Pensacola, Fla., stayed behind.Lollar, who was promoted to senior

  • Road to Marksmanship

    It's time to deploy and part of out-processing is weapons training. For younger Airmen, this is the first time they have shot since basic training. The thought of having to qualify could be nerve racking to some, while others have their eyes set on becoming a marksman. Regardless of an Airman's goal

  • It takes a village

    By the age of three, he found himself in and out of group housing and foster homes in New York City. His father had abandoned him before birth and his mother--addicted to drugs. Staff Sgt. Lamar Valentina, 31st Logistics Readiness Squadron equipment accountability element supervisor, didn't have

  • Focused on innovation

    Improving processes and finding ways to be more efficient is a daily goal of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa Business Transformation Office. One way the office accomplishes this is by hosting senior leadership courses, focused on leading and enabling Airmen to embrace change and

  • Command committed to saving energy, reducing costs

    Saving energy and reducing costs is something many people strive to do. When an energy bill exceeds $150 million, it becomes a necessity. The energy tab for U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa for fiscal 2013 was a whopping $157.5 million. Since 2003, energy costs have risen about 10

  • 50 years later, Airmen recount JFK's death

    "This is Walter Cronkite in our newsroom: there has been an attempt as perhaps you know now on the life of President Kennedy..." The news alert -- just one in a series of frenzied and vague bulletins -- broadcast across television and radio waves Nov. 22, 1963, to a nation that couldn't believe what