• Cherry on top of AF career

    Air Force officials recently announced the 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year for 2015 and, for the second year in a row, Ramstein Air Base is home to one of the Air Force's best.Senior Airman Allen R. Cherry III, 86th Aerospace Medicine Squadron Public Health technician, is now among the 12 Airmen

  • Oral Surgeons: Another side of dentistry

    Two oral surgeons assigned to the 48th Dental Squadron at Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, provide treatment to beneficiaries requiring corrective surgery of the mouth, jaw and face region.Lt. Col. Khurram Shahzad and Maj. Andrew Madson are oral maxillofacial surgeons who specialize in treating

  • RAF, USAF share mission with families

    More than 10,000 RAF and U.S. Air Force Airmen, as well as theit families were invited to this year's 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain Families and Friends Day event at RAF Marham, July 23.The event organizer, Squadron Leader Steve Donnellan, was enthusiastic about making this year's Family

  • 351st ARS boom operator receives 2014 USAFE Instructor of the Year award

    Teaching others is something Master Sgt. Joseph Blakley, 351st Air Refueling Squadron operations superintendent and chief boom from Strawberry Plains, Tennessee, has always wanted to do.Enlisting September 1998 and now 36-years-old, he has been stationed at RAF Mildenhall for almost two years.As an

  • Oregon National Guard leadership visit 123rd EFS

    Leaders from the Oregon National Guard visited the 123rd Expeditionary Fighter Squadron during an immersion visit July 22, 2015, at Campia Turzii, Romania.U.S. National Guard Maj. Gen. Daniel Hokanson, Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, U.S. Air National Guard Chief Master Sgt.Patrick Gauntz,

  • Incirlik Innovation - Incirlik finishes voltage conversion upgrades

    Editor's note: This article is part of a series designed to highlight innovative ideas, programs and actions that have or can save the Air Force money as well as improve mission readiness.With the mindset of saving money and improving processes in today's Air Force, the 39th Civil Engineer Squadron

  • ANG trains with Bulgaria in Thracian Star 2015

    Approximately 150 Airmen and eight F-16s from the 177th Fighter Wing of the New Jersey Air National Guard traveled overseas to participate in Thracian Star 2015, a Bulgarian-led multi-national training exercise at Graf Ignatievo Air Force Base, Bulgaria, from 13-24, July.Thracian Star is a

  • 9 reasons we love the A-10 European TSP

    We LOVE the European theater security packages and since the very first TSP is on its way home from a tremendously successful deployment, we wanted to get a little nostalgic on why we loved the A-10's time here.9. Flying low and slowThe A-10C Thunderbolt II was designed to fly low and slow allowing

  • US, Poland strengthen interoperability through combat control

    U.S. Air Force combat controllers from the 321st Special Tactics Squadron continued their four-day austere landing training with 354th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron A-10C Thunderbolt II pilots at Nowe Miasto, Poland, July 22, 2015.The austere landing training not only qualified the pilots to land

  • First Spanish patriot missile rotation complete in Turkey

    The Spanish Patriot Unit ended the first portion of their one-year deployment in the city of Adana with a transfer of authority ceremony July 22, here.In passing of the Spanish guidon, Army Artillery LTC Juan Castilla, assumed authority over the Spanish Patriot Unit's role in Operation Active Fence