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  • 727th AMS Air Freight handlers keep cargo, mission moving

    Transient aircraft are a daily occurrence on RAF Mildenhall, many of which arrive carrying cargo destined for England. Carefully looking after that valuable cargo, and uploading more onto waiting aircraft, are 727th Air Mobility Squadron Air Freight section personnel.Falling under the 521st Air

  • RAF Mildenhall consolidates dining facilities

    The 100th Force Support Squadron Hardstand Café is scheduled to close April 4, 2014.The final meal service at the flight kitchen will be the midnight meal from 11 p.m. April 3, to 1 a.m. April 4.All meals -- including flight support, ground support and midnight meals -- will be served at the Gateway

  • COMMENTARY: What’s posted on internet stays on internet

    Like a lot of young Airmen, I use social media. Between Instagram, Vine, Twitter and Facebook, my life is publicly documented in a number of ways. It started out small, from taking pictures of my food at restaurants, to now reenacting "spontaneous" moments because no one captured them on camera the

  • Square D Spotlight: Staff Sgt. Craig J. Oas

    Name and Rank: Staff Sgt. Craig J. OasUnit: 352nd Special Operations Support SquadronDuty Title: Security Forces Fly-Away Security Team memberTime in Service: 5 years, 8 monthsTime at Mildenhall: 11 monthsHometown: Munising, Mich.Hobbies: Anything outdoors such as camping, hiking, hunting or

  • Exercise Tonnerre Lightning 14-1: Refining the language of war

    British, French, and U.S. Airmen wrapped up the inaugural Exercise Tonnerre Lightning 14-1 here and other operating locations Friday. The tri-lateral exercise, which replicates a coalition response to a contingency operation, developed as a method for the U.S., the United Kingdom and France's air

  • A&FRC offers new workshop

    The Airman and Family Readiness Center will offer a new workshop to military members who will be permanently changing station, separating or retiring from the Air Force to provide information to help make the process smoother.The workshop, EZ PCS, is scheduled to begin April 1, 2014. The A&FRC

  • Water survival training provides life-saving skills for aircrew

    As a mayday signal crackled over the radio, thunder sounded, rain poured down heavily and 6-foot waves crashed in their faces, aircrew from Team Mildenhall and RAF Lakenheath's Liberty Wing battled their way through water, slowly making their way over to a life raft rocking back and forth in the