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  • USAFE road show: looking at safety from a different perspective

    Zzzzzzzzzz. That's what most people think when they hear they have to attend another safety briefing. And, believe it or not, headquarters is listening - and they're not listening to you snoring. "I wasn't always a safety guy and know what it's like to sit through an obligatory safety briefing,"

  • MEDCEUR participants put training lessons into action

    (Editor's note: This article is the fourth in a series covering training during the Medical Training Exercise in Central and Eastern Europe 2008.) A 15-country multi-national medical force faced a simulated 6.7 magnitude earthquake that shook the country of Croatia injuring more than 10,000. The

  • Airmen share EMEDS capabilities

    (Editor's note: This article is the third in a series covering training during the Medical Training Exercise in Central and Eastern Europe 2008.) Students at the 2008 Medical Training Exercise in Central and Eastern Europe (MEDCEUR) spent the day becoming familiar with Expeditionary Medical Support

  • Multi-nationals get kick out of MEDCEUR

    Cheers, claps and gasps at missed opportunities radiated through the crowd as service members deployed took a break from the Medical Training Exercise in Central and Eastern Europe (MEDCEUR) to indulge in a friendly soccer tournament here May 8 through 9. Players with a wide range of experience

  • AEF 1/2 Airmen leave Sather a better place

    About four months ago, herds of Airmen stepped off planes to make their mark in history. Airmen of Air and Space Expeditionary Force rotation 1/2 here achieved many accomplishments toward the success of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Working as a cohesive team, they have set the bar for their incoming

  • U.S. Army shares EM knowledge with coalition partners

    A team of five soldiers from the U.S. Army 353rd Civil Affairs Command (CACOM) at Fort Wadsworth, N.Y., deployed here April 30 to arm coalition military members with Emergency Management (EM) knowledge during the 2008 Medical Training Exercise in Central and Eastern Europe (MEDCEUR). The 15-nation

  • Combat civilians: Writing history as it happens

    People think of 'history' as those events that happened many of years ago. The Revolutionary and Civil Wars and the Vietnam Conflict are all military conflicts documented in American history, in part by historians who were miles and years away from the action. Thanks to combat civilians like Doug