• USAFE maintainers gain top-down view of transformation

    One of the top Air Force leaders involved in engineering a broad transformation in aircraft maintenance processes and organizational structures arrived here Feb. 19 to talk with senior leaders, wing commanders and maintainers in U. S. Air Forces Europe. "We're looking at the most fundamental

  • Firefighters train in mass casualty exercise

    Billowing smoke and screaming casualties is what firefighters from the 435th Civil Engineer Squadron fire protection flight faced Feb. 11, during a mass casualty exercise here. Fire trucks responded to the scene of a burning warehouse with victims still inside. "It's important we stay prepared and

  • Command and control unit keeps watch over the skies

    Airmen who sleep in their beds at night don't have worry about who's watching the skies here because of one unit that patrols the sky 24/7. Using an Airborne Warning and Control system, 70 Airmen in the 71st Expeditionary Air Control Squadron in Southwest Asia, along with Army missile battery here,

  • Military Saves campaign kicks off

    Military Saves Week kicks off Sunday through March 7. The Military Saves program is a Department of Defense campaign adopted by the U.S. Air Force to promote personal financial readiness among all Airmen and their families to enhance mission readiness. Information and events are available during

  • Multi-service team provides presidential support in Africa

    Airmen, Soldiers, Sailors and Marines from the United States and Europe are arriving in Africa to provide support for a series of country visits by U.S. President George Bush. The military is providing an array of mobile support functions for the president's five-nation visit to the continent. For

  • Radar system receives overhaul, upgrades

    The 1st Combat Communications Squadron's TPN-19 tactical radar system recently completed a three-year deployment to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The transportable radar system is the only one of its kind assigned to U.S. Air Forces in Europe and consists of an airport surveillance

  • Free computer protection, just a few clicks away

    Frozen computers, slow moving functions or even worse -- the blue screen of death -- all of these problems may be avoided by simply taking a few minutes to download free anti-virus software. The Defense Information Systems Agency offers government employees and armed forces personnel access to the

  • Moron participates in Job Shadow Day

    This year, the local students conducted a half-day visit to their assigned sponsors and had a unique opportunity to explore different career fields. The participating career fields were airfield operations, air traffic control, logistics, civil engineering, knowledge operations and communications,

  • Use care when calling: the hidden cost of phone calls

    No one person is responsible for the staggering $80,000 phone bill for Ramstein Air Base each month, but hold the phone: many are contributing to it. At stateside bases, communications squadrons purchase service from a telecommunications company to handle non-DSN off-base calls. Since local non-toll

  • AFSO21 office broadens scope to include support functions

    The facilitators at RAF Mildenhall's AFSO21 office are broadening the spectrum of improvements to encompass the entire 100th Air Refueling Wing mission in 2008. In 2007, process improvement focused mainly on operations and maintenance, resulting in raising the 100th Air Refueling Wing's mission task