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  • Commentary: Embrace your Air Force heritage

    Not everyone enjoys history. To some it is simply a series of dates, names, and places that don't have much relevance today. It's distant and dry. However, I have found through the years that the more you can identify with a historical event, the more you can feel it's part of your history, the

  • Get moving for the health of it

    May is National Physical Fitness and Sports Month, and various Air Force organizations within Europe will join the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports to challenge Americans to get moving for health and to get active and fit.It is recommended that Americans of all ages incorporate

  • Media program highlights RAF Mildenhall mission

    Systems checks were all go as a Cambridge reporter and her videographer strapped themselves into their seats in the Quid 20 cockpit and the massive tanker propelled itself airborne in formation behind another KC-135 Stratotanker on RAF Mildenhall's runway April 27. The mission was a standard one, to

  • AF policy covering travelers stranded by volcanic eruption

    Recent volcanic activity in Iceland led to the grounding of civilian and military aircraft and the official designation of the airspace above Great Britain as a no-fly zone, which stranded many military travelers across the globe.This inconvenience has raised many questions among servicemembers and

  • Blood drive offers Airmen and families opportunity to donate

    The 48th Medical Group is working with the Armed Services Blood Program to organize a blood drive at the fitness center here May 11 and 12.The blood drive is being organized as an effort to increase blood availability for U.S. armed forces stationed globally."You look at the numbers of armed forces

  • VIDEO: Mail Call - Post office employees clear mail backlog

    RAF Mildenhall Post Office personnel are currently in surge mode. Due to the recent volcanic activity in Iceland, air traffic in Europe -- including trans-Atlantic flights -- was temporarily halted. Now that air travel has resumed, large amounts of mail from the United States and other European

  • Team Mildenhall gears up for spring cleaning

    It's that time of year again, and in an effort to maintain a clean and professional appearance, there will be a base-wide cleanup the week of May 3 through 7. Every year, the 100th Civil Engineer Squadron organizes a Team Mildenhall spring cleaning, so we can all focus on sprucing up our work and