• USAFE names manpower and organization award winners

    U.S. Air Forces in Europe recently announced the winners of the command's 2004 Manpower and Organization Awards for Professional Excellence. These individuals and teams are recognized for outstanding contributions in transforming the command organizationally and resolving significant manpower

  • Silver Flag: Airmen 'deploy,' establish bare base

    Through rain, sleet, snow and sunshine — all four often within 10 minutes of each other — 24 Mildenhall Airmen joined other U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air National Guard members in turning a barren plain of dirt into a base suitable for working, sleeping, eating and bathing. The training for

  • The love of the game

    He is quiet and cool tempered at home, at work and with the boys he teaches hockey to. His opponents would never know this tempered demeanor by his skill and aggressiveness on the ice. Bobby Shearer, 48th Munitions Squadron, coaches, referees and plays in various local Anglo-American hockey leagues.

  • NCO speaks on balancing life

    I have an idea for a combat program that could be adopted across the full Air Force spectrum. I call it, “Combat CHOICE,” because everything you or I do is about choices. We choose to do the right things or the wrong things. We choose how to spend our time, what our attitude will be, and what level

  • USAFE contracting supports Namibian multipurpose center

    U.S. Air Forces in Europe Contracting recently teamed with the U.S. European Command and the U.S. Embassy, Windhoek, Namibia, to complete an extension to the Ongwediva Town Hall in Namibia worth more than $282,000. The construction project, which began August 2004 and was completed Feb. 4, increases

  • First AF synagogue, mosque breaks ground

    Chaplains and base leadership here gathered at the Ramstein Southside Chapel to celebrate the beginnings of the Air Force’s first Jewish-Islamic interfaith annex during a groundbreaking ceremony Feb. 17. The $535,000 addition to the Southside Chapel includes two rooms that will serve as Jewish and

  • USAFE JA works to ensure people are protected, disciplined

    Truth, justice and a speedy trial within the military judicial system – these may not be concerns weighing on a military member’s mind on a daily basis, but as a victim of a crime or as a member being accused of a crime it’s something you not only think about, it’s something you expect. The U.S. Air

  • USAFE institutes no-smoking policy in all services facilities

    Putting the health of U.S. Air Forces in Europe members first, USAFE Services is instituting a new policy Feb. 23 prohibiting smoking in all recreational areas within the command. The new no-smoking policy includes services amusement and entertainment areas, said David Quinn, USAFE Services Programs

  • USAFE acquires new standard for processing IT requirements

    Work requests for communications requirements across USAFE will soon be done using a new web-based processing system. The Process, Workflow, Requirements and Resources Manager will replace all current electronic communications request systems used by communications units throughout the command

  • President Bush visits with German officials, U.S. military members

    Amidst frigid temperatures and blowing snow, President George W. Bush, met by German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, arrived here Feb. 23 as part of his European tour. Accompanied by Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and White House chief of staff Andrew Card, President Bush stepped out of Air Force