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  • Tops in Blue: not your average song and dance

    The lights dim as the excitement pulsing through the crowd turns to a hushed anticipation. Expectant whispers turn to cheers as the Air Force's premier entertainment group, Tops in Blue, takes the stage. It's a dazzle of lights, sequins and smiles as they perform music from well-known movies and

  • Airman competes for title of 'Strongman'

    The quiet of the 723rd Air Mobility Squadron gym is interrupted with the sounds of hardcore rock music. Staff Sgt. Adam Keep prepares for his workout, but this is not an average person's workout. The maximum weight that he lifts this day is 675 lbs without a belt; however, this is a normal day for

  • Local nationals make up almost half of KMC fire department

    Fifty one point two percent seems like a shooting statistic or a percentage of a project that is complete. The 51.2 percent actually represents the amount of local nationals that work side-by-side with firefighters who are servicemembers from around the KMC. While having eight fire stations spread

  • Joint medical team cares for thousands of Malians

    The ominous, dark clouds gathering above the village of Droit, Mali, didn't stop Fatoumata, her seven-month-old son Daouda and hundreds of other Malians from waiting hours in line to be seen by the MEDFLAG 08 medical team, July 22, 2008. The village of Droit was one of four villages the MEDFLAG team

  • Maintenance stands, generators and... tricycles?

    The 48th Equipment Maintenance Squadron Aerospace Ground Equipment flight is widely known for fixing equipment from aircraft maintenance stands to generators, but recently they took on a new task - fixing tricycles. After a recent inspection at the Mildenhall Child Development Center, 13 tricycles

  • Airmen define who we are, where we are going

    Imagine flying your first combat mission as a B-17 gunner assigned to attack the heavily defended submarine pens at St Nazaire, France. During your mission, you come under heavy enemy anti-aircraft fire and the airplane you're flying in is struck several times. Two crewmembers are seriously wounded,

  • Gary Sinise, Lt. Dan Band entertain Airmen at RAF Mildenhall

    "Ain't no mountain high enough; Ain't no valley low enough; Ain't no river wide enough - to keep us from getting to you!" said actor Gary Sinise to Airmen and their families gathered at Hangar 539 June 29, quoting a verse from Marvin Gaye's Motown classic sung near the end of the concert. As the

  • Bringing Sarah home

    One mother in China prays for a good life for the baby girl she cannot keep. Thousands of miles away, an American mother in Germany prays for the daughter she hopes to hold. Both pray for the same child, Sarah. Seven years before Sarah was born, Allen and Dawn had two boys and another on the way.

  • Flight operators go to the operating table in career field swap

    Many Airmen never get the opportunity to see first-hand what Airmen outside their career field do on a day to day basis, let alone experience it. That's exactly what the 'swap' program at the Air Force Theater Hospital here at Balad Air Base allowed a handful of Airmen to do. Airmen from the 23rd

  • Camp Darby Airmen help Italian veterans

    They are separated by generations and age, they don't wear the same uniform and they don't even speak the same language, but the 31st Munitions Squadron Airmen here and veterans of the Italian Folgore Parachutist Brigade were bought together with the common goal of refurbishing the Italian veterans