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  • Commentary: Energy as an operations enabler

    October is Energy Awareness Month, and the chosen theme is "New Culture: Energy as an Operations Enabler". I'm going to start off by asking you all a couple of questions. I'm sure you know the answers already.OK ... Here is your first question:How many of you as children or as you were growing up,

  • Corpsman up! So Marines may live

    "Corpsman up!" rang out like a shotgun in his ears.The 7-ton truck he was riding in just crashed back down after being thrown 5 feet into the air after hitting an improvised explosive device while on convoy in eastern Afghanistan. The smoke and dirt hadn't yet settled, and former Hospital Corpsman

  • Combat skills are ticket home

    Humvees came to a screeching halt with one disabled, and the entire convoy stuck at a choke point."This has got to be an ambush," screamed in my mind as my adrenaline skyrocketed and I kept a keen watch protecting the convoy's rear. After all, I was the rear vehicles turret gunner and was charged

  • Deployment Journal: Londoners bid farewell

    What makes the villages of East Anglia such centers of good will and kindness, and when will similarly-populated villages in Afghanistan rise to that level?There's no clear answer on the latter, only a continual struggle to bring peace to that region. However, here in eastern England, anyone can see

  • RAF Mildenhall Airmen fuel NATO's Icelandic Air Policing Mission

    "Global reach, global power," said Maj. Andrew Rose, 493rd Expeditionary Fighter Squadron. That's what Airmen from the 100th Air Refueling Wing at RAF Mildenhall, England, are providing the 493rd EFS as the unit polices the skies of Iceland as a part of NATO's mission of providing air sovereignty

  • Youth center, A&FRC have fun events planned for kids

    An afternoon of fun for children is planned Sept. 25 from noon to 4 p.m. at the youth center here.Combining three events into one, and working in conjunction with the Airman and Family Readiness Center and RAFs Mildenhall and Lakenheath Integrated Delivery System, the event is a Family Fun Day