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  • FitLinxx provides Airmen, families path to reach fitness goals

    Many of RAF Mildenhall's Airmen are well versed when it comes to the FitLinxx Program, however some who are relatively new to USAFE bases may not know what the program is. "FitLinxx is a commercial program designed to log workouts," said Master Sgt. Tiffani Johnson, 100th Services Squadron. "In the

  • British schools welcome American children

    The children of U.S. Air Force families are welcome to use the English free state school system, under the same conditions that the British use them. Americans tend to put their younger children into British schools, while the older children go the American high school on base. This country's

  • Congestion charge takes toll on motorists

    Driving in the England can be strenuous. Driving in downtown London may be one of the worst of all challenges. While planning a trip to London, an important item to consider is the congestion charge. According to the official British transportation Web site, congestion charges are a “toll”

  • OPSEC protects people, equipment, tactics, procedures

    July is Operational Security Awareness Month at RAF Mildenhall. Special emphasis will be placed on OPSEC awareness training, as well as conforming to 100th Air Refueling Wing and unit critical information lists. “There is always confusion over OPSEC,” said Staff Sgt. April Widman, 100th ARW OPSEC

  • Academy cadets see how 'real' Air Force fights the fight

    Doing his part to “keep freedom alive,” Cadet 2nd Class Clinton Borchardt, from Lubbock, Texas, is on a mission. As a student at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., he has big plans to be a flight medicine doctor in the Air Force. As part of Operation Air Force, 23 Air Force Academy

  • 100th MSS 'Mosquito Wing' joins AF track team, competes in inter-nation meet

    At 20 years old, Savanna Duchala is the youngest and lowest ranking person on the U.S. Air Force Track and Field team. Nicknamed "Mosquito Wing" because of her one stripe, Duchala returned from RAF Cosford, near Oxford, June 7 after competing in the CC-Air Headquarters Ramstein Track and Field

  • 352nd SOG wraps up JCET to Trans-Sahara, Africa

    A cloud of dust kicked up by propeller wash from an MC-130 Cargo aircraft taxing out for a mission, engulfs the Senegalese Fokker-27 parked in front of a Hangar at Dakar International airport June 13. The sortie will exfiltrate, or retrieve, U.S. Army Special Forces operators from locations in