• 48th Metals techs forge mission success

    Repairing support equipment from aircraft to water mains, the 48th Equipment Maintenance Squadron aircraft metals technicians are an important asset to any mission here.Metals technicians mainly support the 48th Fighter Wing's multi-million dollar aircraft by creating parts with unique

  • Lithuania: Blending myth with reality

    With hooves that struck like lightning and breath that beat like thunder, Ašvieniai pushed onward - their white manes and skin glistening with the sweat of intense exertion.Higher and higher the mythical horse twins climbed, pulling behind them the chariot of Saulė - the Lithuanian sun goddess. Her

  • Crossroads: Ašvieniai's Voyage

    With hooves that struck like lightning and breath that beat like thunder, Ašvieniai pushed onward - their white manes and skin glistening with the sweat of intense exertion. Higher and higher the mythical horse twins climbed, pulling behind them the chariot of Saulė - the Lithuanian sun goddess. Her

  • Airmen turn C-130 into mobile ER

    A C-130J Super Hercules was converted into a flying critical care unit in mid-air after leaving Ramstein on a real-world mission July 26, 2014."There is no other capability like this in the Air Force," said Maj. Jennifer Jamison Gines, 86th Medical Squadron acute care nurse practitioner. "We had a

  • Team Incirlik gets Street Smart

    More than 500 service members and dependents gathered at the base theater for a Street Smart safety presentation here Aug. 1. Florida firefighters from the Stay Alive From Education Inc., shared the possible consequences of not wearing seatbelts, eating, texting and driving under the influence of

  • POL: Refueling round-the-clock

    When many people are getting up for work, having rested at home, 100th Logistics Readiness Squadron Petroleum, Oils and Lubricants Airmen are heading home after working the night shift. Rather than sleeping at night, they have been keeping planes in the air by providing fuel round-the-clock. Whether

  • Gen. Breedlove visits "boots on the ground" in Turkey

    U.S. Air Force Gen. Philip M. Breedlove, NATOs supreme allied commander for Europe and the commander of U.S. European Command, visited U.S. Army Soldiers deployed to Gaziantep, Turkey in support of the NATO-led Patriot missile augmentation of Turkish air defenses against Syrian aggression, July 31.

  • German native receives U.S. Army award

    A German medical officer was awarded the Army Achievement Medal July 23 in Landstuhl Regional Medical Center."No matter what field we work in, we are Soldiers first," said Capt. Michael Guthmann, from the German air force Center of Aerospace Medicine. "From staying physically fit, to improving our

  • Airman stands among the elite as Outstanding Airman of the Year

    With more than 400,000 enlisted active duty, Reserve and Guard Airmen, few get to tout the distinction of being honored as an Outstanding Airman of the Year.Senior Airman Shabree Heasell, U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa, accomplished that honor this year while stationed here as an

  • STANTA provides defenders with force-on-force training

     More than 180 defenders assigned to the 48th Security Forces Squadron participated in annual force-on-force training at Stanford Training Area July 29."The purpose of the training is to provide an opportunity for Airmen to take their culmination of training over the last year and implement it to