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  • Prefect of Pordenone visits Aviano

    Prefect of Pordenone, Michele Lastella (left), accepts a commander’s coin from U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Tad Clark, 31st Fighter Wing commander (right), after his first visit as Prefect to Aviano Air Base, Italy, Jan. 14, 2025. Lastella met with several units around the 31st Fighter Wing to include

  • 21st Annual Italian-American Friendship Festival

    An Italian air force honor guard member assigned to Aviano Air Base and a U.S. Air Force Airman assigned to the 31st Civil Engineer Squadron Fire Department stand at parade rest during the 21st Annual Italian-American Friendship Festival in Roveredo in Piano, Italy, Sept. 10, 2022. The festival’s

  • Celebrating holidays in Northern Italy

    For many people, the holidays hold a very special place in our hearts. They are days that mean more and where we can celebrate with our loved ones. That is no different here in Italy, as it is back home.

  • Time capsule from ALS class 1999-A found at Aviano

    When 2nd Lt. Connor Heneghan, 31st Logistics Readiness Squadron ground transportation officer in command, was walking by an old storage container one morning, he unknowingly stumbled upon a long-forgotten piece of Aviano history, 21 years in the making.

  • Exercise Astral Knight 2019 boasts multinational relations

    Senior leaders, Italian Air Force Maj. Gen. Silvano Frigerio, Combat Force Commander, U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Steven Basham, U.S Air Forces Europe and Air Forces Africa deputy commander, Brig. Gen. Mato Mikic, Croatian Air Force commander, and Maj. Gen. Alenka Ermenc, Slovenia chief of defense,

  • USAFE-AFAFRICA command team visits Aviano Airmen

    U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa command team, Gen. Tod D. Wolters, commander, and Chief Master Sgt. Phillip L. Easton, command chief, visited Aviano Air Base, Italy, July 23, 2018.

  • Aviano Airmen return from deployment

    Airmen from the 555th Fighter Squadron and the 31st Maintenance Group returned to Aviano Air Base, Italy in early November 2017, from a deployment to Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan.

  • The moment when everything clicks

    It was a hot Afghanistan deployment and the flightline power generators were all experiencing the same problem, too much rotation speed.