• Soldiers teach MEDCEUR lessons -- feature

    Most participants in the Medical Training Exercise in Central & Eastern Europe deploy from Europe-based units.One group of soldiers, however, comes all the way from New York.The seven-member U.S. Army Civil-Military Operations team, based at Fort Wadsworth, N.Y., supports MEDCEUR by teaching

  • Chess Grandmaster plays 15 MEDCEUR particpants simultaneously

    Chess Grandmaster of Montenegro, Bozidar Ivanovic, played chess against 15 people simultaneously at Danilovgrad Army Base, Montenegro, during the MEDCEUR10 sports day Sept. 12.  "I wish you all the best of luck," Ivanovic told his challengers through an interpreter. "I will start from the left and

  • Veteran Airmen return home Sept. 11

    Two World War II veteran Airmen and their guests visited former 100th Bombardment Group airfield, Thorpe Abbotts in Norfolk, England, Sept. 11.Retired Capts. Robert Shoens, pilot of the B-17 'Our Gal Sal,' and Robert Wolff, former 100th Bomb Group prisoner of war, were accompanied by Robert Shoens

  • Air Force trains Congolese medics

    When Capt. Adam Waggoner arrived in Kisingani, Democratic Republic of the Congo in March for a six month deployment, his mission was to provide medical support to a 30-person Special Operations Command and Control Element that was working to train a Light Infantry Battalion of DRC soldiers, as well

  • Follow our MEDCEUR bloggers

    Follow our MEDCEUR 2010 bloggers at http://usafelive.dodlive.mil/ for a personal perspective of working and training with multinational forces in Montenegro.

  • Nigerian air force firefighters visit 17th AF, Ramstein Fire Dogs

    By Matt Herron17th Air Force Public AffairsIn the early morning hours of Sept. 2, Senior Airman Winston Jerez hung suspended from a building in the 435th Construction Training Squadron compound, demonstrating the basket operation rescue maneuver to three firefighters from the Nigerian air force. The

  • Ten for '10: MEDCEUR officially begins

    "MEDCEUR units, attention!"Servicemembers of 10 nations, including the United States, snapped to attention in formation on the parade ground here for the opening ceremonies of MEDCEUR 2010, a large-scale medical exercise for central and eastern Europe."The objectives of the exercise are to develop a