• Aviano spouse named Air Force Spouse of the Year

    A 31st Communications Squadron spouse was recently presented with the Joan Orr Air Force Spouse of the Year Award during a special ceremony in Washington D.C. Melanie Huk, wife of Senior Master Sgt. Edward Huk, 31st CS, was presented the award by Michael Donley, Secretary of the Air Force; Gen.

  • EOD Airmen, families take breather from daily grind

    Airmen of the 31st Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team took a day off of the daily grind Nov. 7 to focus on lessons learned in the field, to better familiarize themselves with those base services available to help ease their high operations tempo career field and to spend time

  • Lajes Field: Semper Fi and Happy Birthday

    It's been 83 years since the first Marine Corps Birthday Ball held in Philadelphia, and the first in recent memory to be held at Lajes Field. Not many Air Force bases would have a reason to formally celebrate a sister service's birthday, but Lajes played host to a Marine Corps Ball Sunday. Marines

  • Law restricts those under 21

    Since Aug. 1, 2007, people under the age of 21 are prohibited from drinking any alcohol when operating a vehicle on public roads in Germany. In other words, the presence of any alcohol in the blood is an offense under German law if you are driving and under the age of 21. Anyone violating this law

  • Incirlik runners go the distance in Istanbul

    Legend has it the messenger Pheidippides ran the first marathon in 490 B.C. from Marathon to Athens, Greece, to proclaim the Greek victory over the Persians before collapsing and dying. The spirit of Pheidippides' run lives on today in the marathon races held around the world every year. Several

  • Sexual assault: survivors walk among 'the common people;' are here to help

    I was 18. It was by somebody I met the night before at a party. I had too much to drink. I never really drank before that and I pretty much passed out. I remember waking up and telling him, "No," and trying to push him off, but I had no energy or strength. I passed out again, woke up with evidence

  • AF nurse saves 2 lives, receives award

    An Air Force clinical nurse here recently received a national civilian award for her nursing skills as a healthcare professional and her actions in saving two lives in 2007.The official announcement of the 2008 Cherokee Inspired Comfort Award, Advanced Practice Nurse category, was made in September

  • Wearing our poppies with pride: ninety years of Remembrance

    At the eleventh hour on  Nov. 11, 2008, we will mark ninety years since the end of The Great War. In the U.S. you call it Veterans' Day. In the U.K., we know  Nov.11 as Remembrance Day or Poppy Day. Beginning in 1939, at the start of World War Two, the two-minute silence was moved to the Sunday