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  • Welsh 'humbled' to serve as Air Force chief of staff

     -- The Air Force chief of staff flag passed to the service's 20th chief in a ceremony here Aug. 10.Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, a 36-year Airman, stepped into the position, taking over for Gen. Norton Schwartz, who also retired from the Air Force during the ceremony."Mark is respected throughout the Air

  • CES soccer champions again

    The 100th Civil Engineer Squadron retained their intramural indoor soccer championship by defeating the 100th Maintenance Squadron 9-2 Aug. 9, 2012, at the RAF Mildenhall North Side Fitness Center.The game started slowly with CES dictating the pace and, after six minutes, Darren Odey opened the

  • Commentary: CST through my eyes

    I recently attended combat skills training and it was an eye opening experience. The only combat type training I had ever received was a 3-day expeditionary skills training course at Langley Air Force Base, Va. in 2007, and I was very apprehensive. Saying goodbye to my wife and daughter with no

  • We’re Honored to Serve with You

    It is truly a remarkable honor to take the flag as your new commander. Cindy and I cannot be more proud of the team we are joining, and we are ecstatic to continue the amazing progress that General and Mrs. Welsh effected in their tenure here. We are blessed to return for our seventh United States

  • Brotherly love in the skies above

    For most Service members, the family ties that are formed by their common military bonds are forged in the depths of basic training or their respective commissioning sources. For Captains John McFarland, 494th Fighter Squadron, RAF Lakenheath and Michael McFarland, 351st Air Refueling Squadron, RAF

  • Bath Salts: Not a way to relax

    Recently the dangers of "bath salts" have been in the news, though these bath salts are not the kind that promote relaxation, but the ones that destroy lives.According to information on the Drug Enforcement Administration's website, www.dea.gov, synthetic cathinones, better known as "bath salts,"