• Liberty Command Chief awarded Bronze Star

    The 48th Fighter Wing Command Chief, Jeffery Williams, was recently awarded the Bronze Star for his actions while serving as the 455th Expeditionary Maintenance Group Superintendent for four months. According to the award citation, the unit projected A-10 attack and C-130 tactical airlift aircraft

  • Lock it or lose it

    Fifteen-hundred dollars. That's the approximate value of items stolen from vehicles in 2007, according to Staff Sgt. Alberto Castillo, operation staff NCO, 48th Security Forces Squadron. Since the year began, nine vehicles have been broken into and items stolen include CDs, navigation systems and

  • Liberty applauds 203 new Staff Sergeant selects

    According to an Air Force Personnel center press release the Air Force selected 15,130 of 36,608 eligible senior airmen for promotion to staff sergeant. The staff sergeant selection rate, 41.33 percent, rose 5.46 percent from last year. The average staff sergeant selectee score for the 07E5 staff

  • Icelandic defense exercise kicks off

    Leaders from the United States and Iceland joined NATO partners Aug. 13 to kick off an exercise to demonstrate U.S. commitment to the 1951 bilateral U.S.-Iceland defense agreement and reinvigorate air defense command and control capabilities of joint and coalition forces in Iceland. Exercise

  • Colorful Competition

    How can a piece of paper, pencil and small scraps of paper be exciting? For Alicia Clark and Kara Witcher, two Feltwell Elementary School students, these materials could mean national recognition for their artistic abilities. Both girls submitted artwork in a national art competition sponsored by

  • Liberty warrior selected for promotion to captain

    The Liberty wing congratulates 1st Lt. Benjamin Martin in 48th Fighter Wing Judge Advocate' s office for his recent promotion selection to captain.According to a July 27 press release by the Air Force Personnel center at Randolph Air Force Base in Texas, 137 first lieutenants were selected for