• The big push - Airmen depart RAF Mildenhall for deployed locations

    The largest group of Air Expeditionary Force responders this cycle - about 100 Team Mildenhall members - departed for various locations in Southwest Asia Friday. The passenger terminal was packed. Families cuddled in nearly every corner of the ground level. Supportive comments from commanders

  • Aircraft crashes, pilot successfully ejects

    A pilot from Aviano Air Base successfully ejected from an F-16 military aircraft at approximately 6:30 p.m. Sept. 18 while on a routine high-altitude training mission. Initial reports indicate the pilot, Maj. Timothy Palmer, assigned to the 510th Fighter Squadron, is in good condition pending

  • Squadron exchange boosts experience

    Swedish JAS-39 Gripen air and ground crews visited the 493rd Fighter Squadron here Sept. 4 through 12 as part of an international squadron exchange program. The squadrons competed against each other in 1 vs. 1, 2 vs. 1 and 4 vs. 4 air combat maneuvers and tactical intercept missions. "This training

  • New Air Force Personnel Center (AFPC) Civilian External Application Process

    Effective 4 Sept 07, AFPC Employment website no longer posts or accepts resumes for external vacancies. Applicants now need to apply via OPM USAJOBS website. In order to receive consideration, applicants must apply directly for vacancies in which they are interested by using the procedures contained

  • DOD announces change to annual pay increase for some NSPS employees

    In a step towards a more robust pay for performance system, the Department of Defense announced Wednesday to grant one-half of the January 2008 government-wide increase to adjust base salaries for 110,000 National Security Personnel System spiral one employees. NSPS is the Department's pay for

  • 126th ARS supports NATO AWACS operations

    Twenty-eight thousand feet in the skies above Hamburg, Germany and more than 4,200 miles from home, a crew from a KC-135 Stratotanker refueling squadron supports a NATO AWACS. The 126th Air Refueling Squadron from the Wisconsin Air National Guard stationed at Gen. Mitchell International Airport in

  • 23rd AMU claims best weapon loader title

    The weapon load from the three aircraft maintenance units at Spangdahlem went head-to-head in competition fighting for the opportunity to be named the best team on base Sept. 11. After preparing and loading an A1M 9 missile, an MK-82 low drag general purpose bomb and a CBU-87 cluster bomb in 35