• New technology provides more realistic training

    Members of the 569th U.S. Forces Police Squadron and the 86th Medical Group participated in medical training with new mannequins, May 31, 2013, Ramstein Air Base, Germany.The new mannequins offer first responders a wider variety of training because they speak, lose blood and can move. The training

  • AMC traffic uses Moron during airfield closure

    The 496th Air Base Squadron experiences an increase in air traffic beginning May 24, 2013, at Moron Air Base, Spain, due to a temporary runway closure at Naval Station Rota, Spain.Construction personnel at Rota began resurfacing the runway and working on the emergency aircraft arresting gear system

  • Portuguese Air Force chief of staff visits Lajes

    Gen. Jose Antonio Magalhaes Araujo Pinheiro, Portuguese air force chief of staff visited with members of the 65th Air Base Wing, June 4, 2013. Gen. Araujo Pinheiro stopped at Lajes Field for the 72nd Anniversary of Portuguese Air Base 4.

  • Ambitions for a better lifestyle

    Twenty-four Airmen from the 48th Aerospace Medicine Squadron volunteered to work with Healthy Ambitions at the Suffolk Show, a countywide event featuring agricultural and local business displays, May 29-30.Healthy Ambitions and the 48th AMDS combined efforts to promote and educate the community on

  • OSI strives for truth

    "The Office of Special Investigations exists to defend the nation, serve justice, protect the integrity of the Air Force and find the truth," said Special Agent Timothy Olive, Air Force OSI Detachment 512 Air Force special agent in-charge."These ideas serve as our 'true north' as we move to take on

  • Memorial marks lives lost 70 years ago at RAF Alconbury

    Nineteen members of the United States Army Air Force 95th Bombardment Group who lost their lives 70 years ago where honored during the dedication of a memorial plaque in their honor at Alconbury Airfield May 27.The event commemorated the day when, at about 8:30 p.m. May 27, 1943, USAAF ground

  • American, Portuguese students share experiences through exchange program

    As part of an annual student-exchange program, American and Portuguese students from the island of Terceira in grades 7 through 11 visited the other's schools to experience the two cultures' education system and to build upon intercultural relationships.The Thomas Borba School, a public school in