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  • Teachers' Forum to link base, community educational needs

    About 25 percent of students attending Beck Row are children of visiting American forces. Other schools in the area also have a dense number of American students, and often times the British teachers aren't aware of deployment stressors base children often endure.To this date, teachers from

  • Commentary: Aim high or step aside

    For many years, the Air Force's recruiting motto of "Aim High" was one of the most recognized phrases in the United States. The average person associated that phrase with our high flying aircraft, satellites and missiles. I, on the other hand, associated it with personal and professional goal

  • 100th SFS Defenders help prep RAF Regiment for Afghanistan tour

    The sweet smell of diesel exhaust began to fill the pitch-black air as Airmen started their Humvees an hour before daylight and began to convoy out to their rendevous point with a flight of Royal Air Force Regiment infantrymen in the middle of a 30,000-acre range.The first full field day of Exercise

  • Air Force Ball hosted for RAFs Mildenhall, Lakenheath

    A celebration was hosted here of the Air Force's 63rd birthday and servicemembers, civilians and guests from the tri-base area attended the ball. The event featured remarks by Lt. Gen. Ralph Jodice, Allied Air Component Command Headquarters commander and 16th Air Expeditionary Task Force commander.

  • Hometown Holiday Greetings coming to RAF Mildenhall Sept. 16

    The Air Force News Holiday Greeting team will be here Thursday, Sept. 16, to film Airmen and their families' Hometown Holiday Greetings. This will be the final opportunity to film greetings for this holiday season. When: Thursday, Sept. 16, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. What: AFNews Filming Hometown Holiday

  • Air Force increases deployment times

    Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz announced a change to the air and space expeditionary force rotational baseline from 120 to 179 days for the active component. The revised construct will increase predictability and stability for affected Airmen and their families while providing better