• Crossroads: the miracle of Swieta Lipka

    The pale moonlight barely shone through the hairline cracks in the darkened cell. Rats scurried along the floor, their tiny footsteps giving away a desperate search for the last morsel of food. Inside the cell, a man knelt with his hands folded - sobbing and praying to Saint Mary for forgiveness and

  • AYP camp offers a real CSI experience

    The Aviano Youth Programs summer camp gave 36 children, a special opportunity to visit with the Pordenone Carabinieri's Crime Scene Investigations unit, Aug. 6, for a Crime Scene Investigation Camp. Team Aviano's junior detectives, ages 9 to 13, learned from Italian Carabinieri CSI unit about crime

  • CV-22 crews save lives

    In the early morning hours of Dec. 21, 2013, 8th Special Operations Squadron crews departed in three CV-22 Ospreys to evacuate American citizens from the remote city of Bor, South Sudan.The mission was proceeding as planned through three countries and 790 nautical miles. The Ospreys arrived at the

  • 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