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  • Eligible blood donors bear the weight

    Eligible American blood donors in Europe are doing an amazing job, said Sgt. Terry Keith, U.S. Army Europe Blood Donor Center mobile collections NCOIC. The USAREUR Blood Donor Center here is the only Armed Services Blood Program in Europe. About 90 percent of the blood collected by the center stays

  • Fog and snow won’t keep planes away from Ramstein

    On Christmas Day, a C-17 Globemaster departed Iraq carrying 14 patients requiring medical care at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany. Due to a low-ceiling visibility, the C-17 requested the first-ever CAT II instrument landing system approach to a Ramstein runway, just three days after the

  • Ramstein loses three C-21s

    The 76th Airlift Squadron will lose three of its 13 C-21A aircraft by the end of the month, as the U.S. Air Force retires the aircraft from the active duty inventory. The C-21 is the military version of the Lear Jet 35A business jet and is used primarily for senior-level passengers, cargo airlift

  • Safety Smarts Essay Contest -Starts 1 December 2006

    Tell us how you choose to be safe in your life, and you can win an Armed Forces Vacation Club certificate (adults) or teens can win an iPod! The three winners will also work with AFN to broadcast safety messages throughout USAFE. Visit your library, or talk to your Safety Officer about the program.

  • USAFE leaders send Holiday message

    The following is a joint message from Gen. Tom Hobbins, U.S. Air Forces in Europe commander, and Chief Master Sgt. Gary G. Coleman, USAFE command chief master sergeant. Chief Coleman and I have probably seen more Christmas holidays come and go while we've been in the Air Force than many of our young

  • Airmen keep summit skies safe

    While Airmen around U.S. Air Forces in Europe were gathering to celebrate Thanksgiving, duty called for more than 450 other Airmen in seven European countries to support the NATO Riga Summit in Latvia. Called Operation Peaceful Summit, the military effort enhanced ongoing Baltic air policing

  • Medical team plays vital Special Ops role

    It's another hot day in Gao, a small village north of Bamako, in the West African country of Mali. A team has assembled at a local village, preparing to perform tasks that would make the average person cringe. A team member is struggling to get a grip on a cow's tongue. Another is fighting to repel

  • ASEV results: 86th OG is excellent

    The 86th Operations Group scored an overall "excellent" on the Aircrew Standardization and Evaluation Visit Oct. 30 to Nov. 3. The U.S. Air Forces in Europe inspectors observed several processes, gave tests and reviewed paperwork to inspect each unit's ability to document, fly and execute missions