• Supply Airmen meet maintainers' demand

    For deployed aircraft maintainers, a warehouse full of the spare parts necessary to keep their planes in the air isn't an option, but neither is waiting several days for parts to be shipped from their home station.Fortunately, the 100th Logistics Readiness Squadron Supply Airmen know how to pack for

  • Sailors, Airmen wrap up aircraft salvage operation

    U.S. Navy and Air Force personnel completed salvage operations Feb. 22 to recover the wreckage of an Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon which crashed off the coast of Italy Jan. 28.Navy divers from Mobile Diving Salvage Unit 2, Company 4, and Airmen from Aviano Air Base, Italy, worked aboard the USNS

  • Ceremony held for New Horizons Wounded Warrior graduates

    The New Horizons Wounded Warrior Support Program held its first-ever graduation ceremony at the Strike Eagle Complex Feb. 19, 2013.Fourteen Airmen from the 48th Fighter Wing and the 100th Air Refueling Wing at RAF Mildenhall were recognized for their completion of the five-week course.At the

  • Wing Safety recognized as 'best' in Air Force

    The 86th Airlift Wing safety office won the Air Force Chief of Safety Achievement Award for ground safety, Category 2 Feb. 4.The unit was recognized for the outstanding achievement in ground safety program management for maintaining the largest and most complex base in U.S. Air Forces in Europe and

  • From The Big Apple to Las Vegas: Lajes Airman realizes Thunderbirds dream

    Riding in his father's New York City taxi cab as a young boy, Gustavo Cifuentes saw an Air Force Thunderbird for the first time. To his surprise, the uniquely styled F-16 wasn't flying overhead, but rather on static display on one of the city's most famous streets. "The Thunderbirds somehow managed

  • REAL THAW 13 sets aim for interoperability

    Aircraft and military professionals from the U.S., Portugal, Netherlands, the U.K. and NATO are continuing to develop their ability to work together during REAL THAW 13, Feb. 11-22.REAL THAW is the Portuguese military's premiere annual exercise that integrates the Portuguese Army, Navy and Air Force