The holiday season is a time for family, friends, festive occasions and revelry – a time to reflect and celebrate all that life has to offer. The holiday season is also one of the busiest times of the year and it is so important that safety be your watch word.
KADENA AIR BASE, Japan — Large numbers of military members will be sent across the world into unfamiliar places and situations when they deploy in the next few months. Civilian employees and military supervisors across the base will face similar treks into new territory with the vast changes brought about by the National Security Personnel System.
The tradition of laying to rest one’s own carries with it the heavy burden of knowing a fellow Airman and hero has just departed. While this is the everyday job of ceremonial guardsmen, sometimes a death hits home a little harder and makes a lasting impact on those who take a part in the funeral.
ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Md. — A year of planning culminated in the orchestration of more than five aircraft, 13 organizations and numerous flight surgeons, nurses, technicians, administrators and air and ground crew who conducted collaborative patient care and transport during Exercise Capital Shield here Dec. 4-7.
Jewish— Hanukkah, 8 Day Festival,today through Dec. 23— Hanukkah Party, Saturday,6:30 p.m. at the Andrews AFB chapel annex— Hanukkah Party, Tuesday,5 p.m. at the Bolling chapel annex
Stalinist rule in Hungary had crushed the post-World War II recovery for the land-locked nation and the people had enough. A nationwide revolt ensued against the Communist government and its puppet dictator, Matyas Rakosi. The Soviet Union responded with a massive military intervention to crush the revolutionaries, killing thousands of civilians and arresting many more.
Catholic: Mass is held weekdays at 11:30 a.m., Saturdays at 5 p.m., and Sundays at 9:30 a.m. in the chapel center. Confessions are heard Saturdays at 4 p.m. in the chapel center. Religious education is held Sundays from 10:45 to 11:45 a.m. at the chapel center.