• New annual Mental Health Assessment requirement begins July 31

    Starting July 31, 2017, Airmen undergoing their annual Periodic Health Assessment may notice something new. A Mental Health Assessment will now be part of every annual PHA, to help ensure that Airmen suffering from undiagnosed mental health issues are referred to the necessary care. Mental health

  • AAFES director/CEO visits RAF Lakenheath

    Army & Air Force Exchange Service director/CEO Tom Shull’s passion for taking care of America’s warfighters took him to Royal Air Force Lakenheath, giving him a firsthand look at how the Exchange benefit is thriving for Airmen and families serving in the United Kingdom.

  • Liberty Wing welcomes Warhawks

    More than 260 Airmen and 18 F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft from the 52nd Fighter Wing, Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, arrived here July 10, 2017, to participate in a flying training deployment.

  • New Air Force health mobile app available for patients

    The Air Force Medical Service has launched a new mobile app to connect Airmen and patients to news and information about the AFMS. The new app is a mobile version of the AFMS website, and lets users customize their experience based on the Air Force military treatment facility (MTF) they use. This

  • 492nd FS wins David C. Schilling Award

    The 492nd Fighter Squadron recently was named the winner of the David C. Schilling Award. The award, sponsored by the Air Force Association, recognizes "the most outstanding contribution in the field of flight," in the atmosphere or space, by an Air Force military member, Air Force civilian, unit or

  • Wilds Lodge School visits RAF Lakenheath

    Students and faculty from the Wilds Lodge School, a specialist school for boys with emotional, social and behavioral difficulties, visited the 48th Fighter Wing June 28.The field trip presented a chance for the boys to view an F-15E Strike Eagle up close and ask questions about military life and

  • Security forces train with FBI, British crisis negotiators

    Defenders from the 100th Security Forces Squadron at RAF Mildenhall and 48th Security Forces Squadron at RAF Lakenheath joined forces June 19 - 23 for top-level training in crisis negotiation. Facilitators from the FBI at Quantico, Virginia, along with experts in hostage and crisis negotiation from

  • Schumann family practice

    When Christopher Schumann enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1985, few would have predicted that three decades later, he would be a colonel-select serving as the staff judge advocate at the largest fighter wing in U.S. Air Forces Europe.Fewer still could have foreseen his "total force" trajectory, as