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  • MOC: Maintenance's Command Post

    With 24-hour operations five days per week and Airmen on standby during the weekends, 'busy' is a bit of an understatement for the 52nd Maintenance Group's Maintenance Operations Center.A small unit consisting of 11 Airmen, the MOC is charged with monitoring the status of all aircraft and equipment

  • Materiel Management Flight "You don't fly without supply"

    Sitting under the glow of fluorescent lights inside an office, or facing the punishing elements checking identification cards at the front gate, or turning wrenches on the flightline provide the back drop for many Spangdahlem Airmen.But for a handful of Airmen in the 52nd Logistics Readiness

  • Turbo-charged crescendo for fitness campaign

    This article is the third and final installment in the Turbo-Charged Challenge series.For six weeks, the 52nd Aerospace Medicine Squadron and fitness center sponsored the Largest Loser Campaign - a campaign that started Jan. 5 to promote physical fitness, wellness, nutrition awareness and healthy

  • Wing serves as 'one team, one fight' during training deployment

    Naturally, any movement of aircraft and personnel from one base to another requires all the efforts of a team focused on a single mission.The recent flying training deployment between the U.S. and Hellenic air forces Jan. 16 through Feb. 13 at Souda Bay, Greece, represented no exception.The

  • Halfway there: a recharging checkpoint

    This article is the second installment of a three-part series about the Turbo-Charged Challenge.A New Year's resolution is oftentimes the igniting spark of motivation that propels individuals to make a change to their lifestyle. Individuals may initiate a work-out plan with thoughts such as, "it's a

  • Greek-US interoperability leaves lasting roots in Souda Bay

    For millennia, the island of Crete has served as a launch pad for legends, both historical and mythical.Another milestone would be recorded in the history of the more than 3,000-square mile island; but it would not be etched by the Greek god Zeus's lightning bolts on slabs of marble, but through

  • Hidden wounds of war: One man's fight with mental, spiritual fitness

    "The brave men and women, who serve their country and as a result, live constantly with the war inside them, exist in a world of chaos. But the turmoil they experience isn't who they are; the PTSD invades their minds and bodies."-Robert Koger, AuthorOne of those brave men went off to war to combat

  • Voices of the Battle of the Bulge Part Two

    EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second of a two-part collection of 10 interviews with 10 World War II veterans who served during the Battle of the Bulge Dec. 16, 1944, through Jan. 25, 1945. The veterans returned to Europe for 70th anniversary observances of the battle in Belgium and Luxembourg, Dec.

  • Airmen turbo-charge their 2015

    (Editor's note: This is part one of a three-part series.)The light tapping of rain could be heard on the cold, glass windows of the gym's second floor as gray, blank clouds loomed over the installation. Seventeen sneakers shuffle to the starting line.A stench of sweat, vigor, failure and success

  • Voices of the Battle of the Bulge Part One

    EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first of a two-part collection of 10 interviews with 10 World War II veterans who served during the Battle of the Bulge Dec. 16, 1944, through Jan. 25, 1945. The veterans returned to Europe for 70th anniversary observances of the battle in Belgium and Luxembourg, Dec.