• Returning crews brave thunderstorms, land safely

    It’s the stuff movies are made from: a thunderstorm wall as high as 45,000 feet, two aircraft one with limited radar coverage, 100 miles from intended course.Upon off-loading 70 passengers and their cargo at El-Fashir airstrip in Darfur Friday as part of the African Union Missions in Sudan, Pilot

  • Combat Comm hooks up African ops

    Anyone that's experienced a power outage or even a network outage at home station appreciates the necessity of communications in every facet of accomplishing the mission. When deployed, that necessity intensifies.As a "first in, last out" unit, the eight members of the deployed 1st Combat Comm team

  • USAFE takes second in swimming competition

    The Component Command Air Headquarters Ramstein Swimming Championship was held Sept. 20 - 22 at Royal Air Force College Cranwell, England.The U.S. Air Forces in Europe team took second place with 64 overall points.The event is open to the Allied air forces of the Northern Region. The swimming

  • 407th ECES expands clinic in Iraq

    Fifteen Airmen from several occupational specialties came together Sept. 19 to double the 777th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron medical clinics’ work space at Ali Base.Patients now have more privacy during screenings and treatment, there is a clinic waiting area and the 6-person clinic staff isn’t

  • KMCC construction on track

    The final 15-ton dome was put into place recently at the Kaiserslautern Military Community Center here, bringing the project one step closer to completion.The dome was lowered into place using a crane and will provide light between the new Army Air Force Exchange Service Mall Food court and the

  • USDA makes changes in Free and Reduced Lunch Program

    The U.S. Department of Agriculture has recently announced that more families may be eligible for the Free and Reduced Lunch Program because of a change in eligibility guidelines.The USDA released a memorandum authorizing the exclusion of the Family Supplemental Subsistence Allowance as income when

  • FSC assists Airmen throughout career life cycle

    With all the online and automated telephone services available in today’s technologically advanced landscape, it seems to be increasingly rare to pick up the phone or go to an office and talk to an actual person.Family support centers around the command prove that the human connection can never be

  • Confidential sexual assault reporting now in place

    One in three women in the military has been a victim of sexual assault and 39 percent of victims have been raped more than once, said Tech. Sgt. Nancy Dresseen, 48th Fighter Wing Sexual Assault Response Coordinator NCO in charge.In February 2004, the secretary of defense called for a review of all