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  • SERE training: Doing what it takes to survive

    You're on a routine flying mission over the wash. You've done it a million times before, at least two or three a week. The difference this time is you'll be put to the test. The aircraft is going down; within seconds you have to draw on all your training. As you make an emergency jump out of your

  • Men are spouses too (part 2)

    The term dual-income is used to describe a household where both parents have full-time jobs. But, when it comes to the Murrie family, that term does little to describe the intense schedules they maintain. "I commute to New York, N.Y., and then I start work," said Jon Murrie, an American Airlines

  • Men are spouses too (part 1)

    It's 6 a.m., and the kids are up before you. The baby's hungry and crying in the crib. The other two children are tugging at the blankets telling you they want breakfast. You literally roll out of bed and head downstairs telling yourself that your 4-month-old son drinks milk, not coffee, from his

  • Team Mildenhall closes out a week to honor the strong

    As the 21-gun salute and taps echoed across the base, a week of events for the annual Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Week of Remembrance ended with a special retreat ceremony, Friday, held at the RAF Mildenhall flagpole. Airmen massed in formation representing Team Mildenhall to pay tribute to

  • 'We Will Cover You'

    Some in darkness - some during the heat of the day, Airmen from RAF Mildenhall willingly gave 10 minutes of their time to support the Prisoner of War/ Missing in Action 24-hour vigil. The base hosted the vigil as part of the annual POW/MIA Week of Remembrance, complete with a display of combat boots

  • No one comes close?

    So there I was, or really, there it was ... the statement, "Just because we say we are the world's greatest Air Force, does not mean that we are." That was the first time I heard anyone say that before and my first thought was, "This person has a lot of guts!" Then I thought about the statement some

  • Saluting -- not just for American officers

    It's a beautiful summer day here at Spangdahlem Air Base, and I am riding on the Surrey Bus through our base. As we are driving, I watch countless Sabers walk by the bus, some look and others don't. Then I hear the question, "Why didn't that person salute the General who is on this bus?" Fellow

  • One more for the road

    It was as if the mighty MH-53M Pave Low IVs didn't want to bid goodbye to Master Sergeant Eddie Linnbaum, much less help add time to his flight-hour record on the day of his finis flight May 3. The first two helicopters refused to pass run up checklists. But the third didn't let the 21st Special

  • Children get glimpse of deployment life at Operation Together and Ready

    Fun and education was the order of the day June 9 when the Airmen and Family Readiness Center held a deployment readiness event at the youth center. Operation Together and Ready, put together especially for children, focused on all phases of deployments, and included a simulated deployment line and