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  • VIDEO: Kessingland memorial honors historic downed crew

    The village of Kessingland, England, may be small, but local residents demonstrated their big hearts in a memorial dedication to the crew of a U.S. Air Force B-24 Liberator at the village's war memorial April 22. An eyewitness and the initiator of this remembrance recalled the night of Mission 311's

  • SAFETY FIRST: Slowing down saves lives

    The smell of burning charcoal lingers in the air over RAF Mildenhall as families and friends begin to soak up the warm spring air. A group of Airmen gather at the barbecue pit behind their dormitory and carelessly slap a rack of juicy marinated ribs on the grill. "This is the life," one exclaims, as

  • 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