• RAPCON: Coordinating mission success

    The soft lights of large displays reveal faces of Airmen as they sit in the dark room, the sounds of multiple voices speaking calmly into their headsets. Finally the watch coordinator’s voice breaks the low rumbling voices to congratulate everyone on a successful evening of ensuring Liberty Wing

  • 48th CS: Spiders maintain communications web

    The aptly named 48th Communications Squadron ‘Spiders’ play an integral role in keeping the 48th Fighter Wing’s web of communications systems up and running, providing service to approximately 5,500 users across 25 organizations.

  • School Liaison office: The education experts

    When Airmen with children go through a permanent change of station, there are certain boxes that need to be checked, even more so when moving overseas. Tasks such as finding a house, ensuring household goods are transported on time and finding child-care services can be overwhelming, to say the

  • Metals techs fabricate mission success

    A member of the 48th Equipment Maintenance Squadron aircraft metals unit uses a plasma cutter to cut a piece of metal for a future fabrication project at Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, Jan. 25. Metals technicians assist units across RAF Lakenheath repairing aircraft equipment on a regular

  • Dorm Council Airmen help improve quality of life

    Since October 2017 the Dorm Improvement Council, comprised of Airmen representing each dormitory building, has been meeting with wing leadership each month to help improve quality of life for dorm residents.

  • Catching Eagles

    It’s thanks to the hard work and attention to detail of the power production shop that the Liberty Wing’s pilots have a safe and reliable way to stop in emergency situations, resulting in total focus on the mission.

  • Deployed Lakenheath captain helps shape Afghan legal system

    A country’s criminal justice system is the set of agencies and processes established by governments to control crime and impose penalties on those who violate laws.Capt. John-Charles Laws, U.S. Forces Afghanistan National Security Justice Development Directive legal advisor, has a unique job

  • Liberty Spotlight: Keeping F-15s versatile

    Flexibility is the key to airpower, and the F-15 demonstrates that flexibility by having a wide variety of weapons to choose from to complete mission objectives.