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  • Remembering Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot

    What to know: Team Mildenhall is invited to attend a Bonfire Night event including fireworks, hosted by the British-American Council Nov. 3 at Aspal Close in Beck Row beginning at 6 p.m. The bonfire will be lit around 6:15 p.m. and a fireworks display is slated to begin at 6:45 p.m. Hamburgers, hot

  • Remembrance Day: Britain to honor its defenders

    There are few, if any, ceremonies celebrated throughout the United Kingdom as sincerely as Remembrance Sunday. It's the day when the whole nation pays tribute to those who have died in battle. The armistice which ended World War I in 1918 was signed on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month

  • Date set for Hobbins’ Order of the Sword induction

    Preparations are underway for the Order of the Sword induction ceremony to honor General William T. Hobbins, commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe. USAFE Command Chief Master Sgt. Gary Coleman and a team of individuals throughout the command are working diligently to put together this red carpet

  • Patriots Cheerleaders to visit troops overseas

    ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. - Cheerleaders for the National Football League's New England Patriots will bring holiday cheer to American troops and families overseas Nov. 18 to Dec. 1. Headquarters U.S. Air Forces in Europe at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, and Headquarters Air Force Reserve Command

  • Fill it up

    Staff Sgt. James Hansen, an aircraft maintainer with the 379th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, and Airman 1st Class Janine Williamswood, a fuel specialist with the 379th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness, pull a fuel hose from under a B-1B Lancer after completing a 4,000-pound fuel

  • Seeing stars: Departing two-star presents Bronze Star to Reserve colonel

    Maj. Gen. Paul Fletcher had one item left on his to-do list before his final departure from the headquarters building where he worked since Nov. 1, 2005. The 3rd Air Force-United Kingdom commander called an all-staff meeting for 4 p.m. Sept. 21 so he could present a Bronze Star to Col. William

  • Readiness training: Out with the old, in with the new

    Sept. 1, a new Air Force-wide format for readiness training replaced the old method which included a grueling three-hour of PowerPoint presentation, immediately followed by an hour of practical hands-on training. Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Survival Skills training - formerly

  • SBP Offset Elimination

    Section 644 of Public Law (PL) 108-375 provides a 3½-year period phase out of the SSO reduction applied to SBP annuities. Beginning Oct. 1, 2005 and ending  March 31, 2008, the two-tier method of computing the annuity for a spouse annuitant age 62 and older is eliminated by increasing the amount of

  • Income Taxes on US Military Retirees’ Pay

    UK/US Income Taxes on Retired Pay Income Taxes on US Military Retirees' Pay: Money received as retirement pay by a retired US military person resident in the United Kingdom is subject to income tax by the United States Government, but such money is wholly exempt from tax by the British

  • Retirees’ Limited Privilege Program [RLPP]

    Introduction: All items sold by the Army and Air Force Exchange Service [AAFES] and the Commissary [DeCA] in the UK are sold free of British import duty. The sale of this merchandise is governed by a NATO Status of Forces Agreement [SOFA] of January 1951. The SOFA authorizes only those individuals