On Saturday, 12 Dec 09, over 4,000 people descended on the town of Bastogne to participate in the 32d Historic Perimeter Walk and 65th Anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge. During our 16 KM walk through the snow and mud of the towns, fields and woods surrounding Bastogne, my good friend, my 9-year old [...]
After spending just a few days in Romania, I can say it is one of the most interesting places I have visited thus far during my tour in USAFE. I’m here as the public affairs officer supporting the 81st Fighter Squadron from Spangdahlem Air Base during their combined training with the Romanian Air Force. From [...]
This Saturday, our host nation friends will celebrate a fairly new national holiday, the Day of German Unity, commemorating the reunification of Germany only 19 short years ago.
I’d like you to pause for a moment to consider the importance of German reunification. The incorporation of the former East German states into the Federal Republic of [...]
What a day for our Air Force and our European partners! Today we saw Col.
John Zazworsky and magnificent Airmen from 12 nations standup the Strategic
Airlift Capability Program’s Heavy Airlift Wing at Pápa Air Base, Hungary.
The SAC HAW is the first-of-its-kind airlift partnership comprised of 10
NATO nations and two Partnership for Peace countries. Pioneering Airmen from
USAFE [...]
I traveled recently to Turkey to see Airmen at Incirlik Air Base and Izmir Air Station, and I came away impressed with not only the quality of the Airmen we have in service to our nation, but also the importance of the mission they’re doing with one of our most important allies.
Turkey is a strategic [...]
This is the first time in my short three-year career that I have left my assigned base to travel anywhere work related. I have been passed up time and time again to go TDY or deploy for one reason or another, but now, it’s finally time for me to go somewhere, and what luck – [...]
I could barely sleep last night, as I was so excited to be traveling the next day to Romania. I think I ended up getting 5 hours of sleep before getting up at 0500 to go to work. I am actually getting the chance to fly my jet in both ways to Romania [...]
Gen. John Craddock, commander of U.S. European Command, recently visited Ramstein Air Base, Germany, where he talked about the important contributions U.S. Air Forces in Europe provides to both EUCOM and the NATO alliance. See more here: GEN Craddock visits USAFE. Download Video
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Welcome to the official blog site for U.S. Air Forces in Europe — “USAFE Live.”
I’m Gen Roger Brady, the Commander of USAFE. I want to create a site where Airmen can talk about what they do here in Europe as USAFE Airmen and as NATO partners.
USAFE has more than 39,000 active-duty, Reserve, Air National [...]
