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  • Action Line: Regulations suspended for VIPs

    COMPLAINT:I was wondering why rules and regulations were relaxed so much during a recent VIP visit.I was in the Liberty Club during the recent Kid Rock visit.There are regulations governing smoking in all RAF Lakenheath facilities. As I entered the Liberty Club, the stench of cigarettes was very

  • Action Line: Enforcement of regulations in Liberty Village

    COMPLAINT:I am a recent recipient of the a new home in Liberty Village and am very impressed with the design and thought that was put into the homes and community. With that being said I am also upset and hope that you can assist. The housing office provided a very thorough and easy to understand

  • Action Line: Fears for security

    COMPLAINT:With all the recent break-ins in the Lord's Walk area why is nothing being done security wise? I know the base cannot do anything about it but I am sure they can work with the British police to do something. Since we have been moved to the off-base housing I have seen the police in here

  • British Billy's What is Twelfth Night?

    It's very likely that you've all heard of the song, 'The Twelve Days of Christmas', with all the partridges in pear trees, swans a-swimming and geese a-laying. They couldn't have included a cat in that song - with all those birds, it would have been carnage. Well, the 12 days of Christmas actually

  • Alliances built by handshakes and camaraderie, not phone calls or e-mail

    Last summer, I moved to Mildenhall to work in the international relations division of 3rd Air Force - United Kingdom. In this job, I've had the privilege of working hand-in-hand with our U.K. allies on a daily basis. On Dec. 7, 68 years after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, I was able to experience how

  • The Snowmen of RAFL

    It is beginning to look a lot like winter ... at RAF Lakenheath.  The children and families of the base clearly enjoyed their first snow day of the year by taking to the front yard and building their versions of Frosty and Crystal.  As a native of Buffalo, N.Y., I have many fond memories of winter

  • British Billy's Happy Hogmanay

    As the other Alpha male in our happy homestead happens to be a proud Scotsman, my whiskers are already bristling with anticipation as the New Year approaches. The Scots have always preferred to postpone their seasonal celebrations for a few days to welcome in the New Year, an occasion the Scots call

  • Thank you first sergeant

    "Thank you first sergeant." Wow, imagine if one could copyright that familiar phrase and receive a nickel every time it was said. We'd be rich, right? Think about it. How many times have you been walking around the corridors of your squadron and heard young Airmen on their way out of the shirt's

  • British Billy's Merry Christmas

    As you spend your Christmas in the U.K., no doubt you will want reminders of Christmases at home to make you feel festive, but why not add to that yuletide glow with some good old British traditions as well? In England, Christmas as we know it might well have disappeared in 1647 when Oliver

  • SFS on Lords Walk housing area

    As a resident of the Lords Walk housing area and the 48th Security Forces Squadron superintendent of Operations and Training, I'm very invested in the recent increase of concern about crime where I live. As a long-time Liberty Warrior and Lords Walk resident, I stumbled across a blog post recently