• AFRICOM leaders discuss future during symposium

    Approximately 300 U.S. service members and other personnel from the U.S. Africa Command attended the annual Regional Synchronization Working Group symposium kickoff Nov. 14, here.U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, commander, AFRICOM, gave the opening remarks for the conference.

  • Task force preps 48th FW for F-35 mission

    With the F-35A Lightning II aircraft scheduled to join the 48th Fighter Wing’s inventory, the third Site Activation Task Force convened here, Nov. 14-17.“The purpose of this is to look at all the things that need to be done in order to position the F-35 and have the first aircraft arrival in Nov.

  • US commemorates Serbian support during WWII

    The U.S. State Department, U.S. Air Force, Royal Air Force, Serbian armed forces, and local government officials attended a commemoration event in the town of Pranjani, Serbia Nov. 18, which honored the villagers who welcomed the downed Airmen with open arms.

  • 4th ASOG Airmen honor fallen German soldiers

    Four Airmen assigned to the 4th Air Support Operations Group attended a German National Day of Mourning ceremony with the German reservist unit Reservistenverbandes Undenheim in Undenheim, Germany, Nov. 13.The ceremony included speeches from the city’s mayor and a religious figure, a small musical

  • Exercise Salamander concludes

    Exercise Salamander, a joint training exercise involving U.S. and French air force aircraft and airmen concluded at Cazaux Air Base, France, Nov. 18.

  • HAW opens new hangar

    Three years of construction culminated with a grand opening ceremony for a C-17 Globemaster III hangar complex at Pàpa Air Base, Hungary on Nov. 17, 2016.The first-of-its-kind hangar complex provides space to wash and paint the HAW’s three C-17s, and allows fuel cell, operational and routine

  • CSAF announces CMSAF #18

    Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David L. Goldfein named Chief Master Sgt. Kaleth O. Wright to serve as the 18th Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Nov. 16, 2016.