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  • Aviano AB celebrates Annual Awards 2025

    31st Fighter Wing Annual Awards winners stand on stage at the end of the ceremony at Aviano Air Base, Italy, Feb. 20, 2026. Participants on stage closed the ceremony singing the Air Force song together. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Stephan Bang)

  • Aviano AB hosts Key Support Liaison Symposium

    U.S. Air Force Key Support Liaison advisors answer questions as part of a peer panel during the KSL Symposium at Aviano Air Base, Italy, Feb. 6, 2026. The event brought together Key Support Liaisons and Key Support mentors to facilitate discussions on strengthening best practices and support

  • POL fuels the fight!

    U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Michael Worsham, 31st Logistics Readiness Squadron fuels equipment maintenance journeyman, drives an R-11 fuel truck assigned to the 31st LRS onto a C-17 Globemaster III at Aviano Air Base, Italy, Jan. 16, 2026. The 31st LRS’s Fuels Management Flight Airmen are

  • Civil Air Patrol: Developing Youth into Leaders

    U.S. Civil Air Patrol cadets assigned to the Aviano CAP cadet squadron practice Tactical Combat Casualty Care at Aviano Air Base, Italy, Jan. 6, 2026. CAP helps shape cadets into confident leaders, prepared to serve both their neighbors and their nation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Joseph

  • 31 FW deputy commander prepares for flight

    U.S. Air Force Col. Michael Kingry, 31st Fighter Wing deputy commander, buckles into an HH-60W Jolly Green II before taking off at Aviano Air Base, Italy, Jan. 22, 2026. Kingry is a command pilot with more than 2,500 total hours in the HH-60G Pave Hawk and HH-60W Jolly Green II and has flown over

  • Aviano Air Base Hosts Joint Military Commission 54

    AVIANO AIR BASE, Italy — Senior leaders from the United States military and the Italian armed forces gathered at Aviano Air Base for the biannual Joint Military Commission January 14 - 15, 2026, reinforcing the long-standing partnership between the two nations and reaffirming their shared commitment

  • Slovenian allies enhance capabilities during BAK-12 training

    U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Dante Summers, 31st Civil Engineer Squadron barrier maintenance non-commissioned officer in charge, conducts Barrier Arresting Kit 12 training to Slovenian armed forces service members at Aviano Air Base, Italy, Jan. 7, 2026. The BAK-12 is the brake system that activates

  • Aviano AB takes part in Jolly 22 memorial ruck

    On Jan. 7, 2014, U.S. Air Force Capts. Sean Ruane and Christopher Stover, Tech. Sgt. Dale Mathews and Staff Sgt. Afton Ponce, the crew of Jolly 22, were killed when their helicopter crashed while performing a low-flight level training mission in England.

  • 606th ACS celebrates 80th anniversary

    A 5-ton truck from the 606th Air Control Squadron rolls out of the compound to join a convoy to celebrate the squadron's 80th anniversary at Aviano Air Base, Italy, Dec. 11, 2025. The convoy commemorated the squadron’s 80th anniversary and highlighted the 606th ACS as the only control and reporting