• 37th AS Airmen participate in Operation Market Garden anniversary

    Nineteen Airmen along with three C-130J Super Hercules aircraft assigned to the 37th Airlift Squadron traveled to Holland Sept. 16 to 19 to participate in the reenactment of the largest airborne assault in history to date. More than 1,000 Dutch, German, British, Polish and American forces

  • Tops in Blue entertains Airmen, Portuguese partners at Lajes Field

    At the dusk of Tuesday evening, more than 250 members gathered at the Portuguese South Hangar to watch the Air Forces' expeditionary entertainment team, Tops in Blue, during the team's visit here Sept 14. The team of entertainers was here as part of its 2010 world tour named "We Believe," which will

  • MEDCEUR10 successfully closes

    The 2010 Medical Training Exercise in Central and Eastern Europe held a closing ceremony today.Almost identical to the fashion of the opening ceremony, exercise Co-Director U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Brent Vosseller from RAF Lakenheath, England, called the formations of servicemembers from 10

  • VIPs witness MEDCEUR intensity

    The servicemembers participating in the 2010 Medical Training Exercise in Central and Eastern Europe demonstrated what they had learned in two weeks of classroom training and live simulations of disaster and crisis situations Sept. 17.The participants ran through a rapid-fire series of crisis

  • Seabees build Montenegrin clinic

    While American Airmen, soldiers and Marines are hard at work training with service members of partner nations at the Medical Training Exercise in Central and Eastern Europe 2010 (MEDCEUR), their Navy counterparts are two hours north in a mountain village.As part of MEDCEUR 10, hosted at Danilovgrad

  • Spreading a gospel for the dead: Marines teach MEDCEUR military medics

    It's not your everyday Marine Corps instructional slide show. Before the familiar "Questions?" screen rolls, a dozen images of bodies ravaged by combat in Iraq flash before the class.A Personnel Retrieval and Processing Marine stands by signaling his assistant to change slides in a small multimedia

  • Marine Corps PRP team participates in live ex

    A half dozen Personnel Retrieval and Processing Marines worked a mock PRP collection point Sept. 15 as part of the live exercise portion of Medical Training Exercise in Central and Eastern Europe, or MEDCEUR 10.The exercise challenges approximately 250 U.S. and foreign servicemembers, hailing from

  • Former POW inspires audience with experiences, wisdom

    Members of Team Ramstein honored prisoners of war or those missing in action at a luncheon Sept. 17 at the officers' club here. The 435th Air Ground Operations Wing hosted the event in remembrance of National POW/MIA Recognition Day, featuring guest speaker retired Navy Capt. David Hoffman. "Thank

  • Team USAFE goes to Air Force Marathon

    U.S. Air Forces in Europe will be represented by a 14-person team competing for the top spot at the 14th annual Air Force Marathon Sept. 18 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.The first official marathon was held on the 50th anniversary of the Air Force and is held on the third Saturday in