• New program lets Airmen speak their mind

     A group of Airmen and USAF civilians are being invited to become the Air Force's Internal Communication Assessment Group, called the ICAG. Internal communication refers to how the Air Force delivers information to Airmen and USAF civilians. Senior Air Force leaders want to know Airmen's interests,

  • New survey aims to improve information delivery to Airmen

    The Secretary of the Air Force Office of Communication at the Pentagon has launched a study to find out how Airmen want to get information about the Air Force. A randomly selected group of Airmen and Air Force civilian employees will receive an e-mail invitation from Brig Gen Erv Lessel, Air Force

  • Student council making changes for the better

    Sixth-grader Chloe Youtsey wanted to make improvements to her school here -- more school spirit, more extra-curricular activities and better lunches. Like many teens, she enlisted the help of her friends and held an impromptu meeting under a gazebo during lunch break. The result ... the Incirlik

  • Digging up bones -- Archeologists discover human remains

    As the archeological team from Suffolk County Council was in the middle of a routine dig in the RAF Mildenhall officers' housing area in Beck Row March 12, they knew they'd stumbled across an interesting find when a shovel hit something solid. "Something solid" turned out to be the skull of a human

  • USAFE announces annual award nominees

    For Tech. Sgt. Brian Lavigne, the U.S. Air Forces in Europe Annual Awards Banquet is the end result of a good thing that just kept getting better. When the NCOIC of the Maintenance Operations Center for the 606th Air Control Squadron at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, learned he was selected as the

  • USAFE medics deliver in Uganda

    A four-man team from around the command spent a week recently delivering badly needed medical expertise and therapy to the African country of Uganda. Led by Dr. (Lt. Col.) Parker Plante from Ramstein's 435th Aeromedical Squadron, the team set up camp about two hours from the capitol city of Kampala

  • Ramstein crowns an Idol

    Capt. Sonnie Stevens, 435th Aerospace Medical Squadron, won the Ramstein Idol competition March 9 with a rendition of "Always and Forever" by Heatwave. Captain Stevens, who has been with the Air Force for 15 years, will be competing in the USAFE Idol competition at Ramstein April 14.

  • Local spouse claims ACC's Joan Orr award

    Thousands of lives have been touched by the selfless efforts of Cindy Secor, the Air Combat Command Joan Orr Spouse of the Year award winner for 2006. As the Volunteer Coordinator for the Wounded Warrior Ministry Center at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Mrs. Secor (with the help of her fellow