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Tech. Sgt. Eric Barlow, 86th Civil Engineer Squadron fire station captain, and Airman 1st Class Kevin Williams, 86th CES firefighter, train to fight fires on a simulated burning aircraft. The 86th CES fire department Airmen train to hone their skills for real-world situations. Every October, the department hosts Fire Prevention Month, when they perform presentations at KMC schools to teach children the importance of fire safety.
Airman 1st Class Jeffrey Knelange, 786th Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal apprentice, helps Airman 1st Class Tyler Hatfield, 786th CES EOD apprentice, into his bomb suit before practicing unexploded ordnance operations. Ramstein EOD Airmen provide support to the base and the local community by helping destroy ordnance found in and around the KMC.
Senior Airman Danielle Marsh, 86th Aerospace Medicine Squadron public health technician, looks through an optical refractor during an optometry demonstration.
Airman Alexander Garratt, 86th Civil Engineer Squadron firefighter, cries out in exhaustion. Competitors had to put on full protective fire gear, sprint to the top of a two-story tower and pull a fire hose weighing 45 pounds through the window and sprint down to the bottom floor, hit a 165-pound steel beam with a nine-pound hammer until it moved forward five feet, negotiate through a 100-foot serpentine course, drag a hose 75 feet and knock down a target with a stream of water. To end the course, firefighters had to drag a 175-pound dummy 100 feet to the finish line.
An 86th Logistics Readiness Squadron fuel distribution operator moves a fueling pantograph into place to refuel an aircraft. The 86th LRS is the Air Force’s third largest fuels supply point providing assistance to three combatant commands.
Staff Sgt. Paul Young, 86th Logistics Readiness Squadron supply technician, replaces inventory. The more than 390 Airmen of the squadron provide the 86th Airlift Wing and other units with Air Force’s largest travel management office, the Air Force’s fourth largest defense fuel support point and U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa’s largest equipment account.
Staff Sgt. Barbara Coddington, 86th Airlift Wing Legal Office military justice paralegal, reviews and blocks a case file for trial. Blocking consists of completing a checklist ensuring the entire trial record is assembled in one file. The office provides free legal assistance to service members, Department of Defense civilian employees, DOD contractors and their dependents.
Staff Sgt. Kevin Byrne, 86th Maintenance Squadron flying crew chief, inspects the engine of a C-130J Super Hercules. Byrne, and other crew chiefs like him, performs regular inspections and checks in order to identify problems that could affect an aircraft’s ability to fly, potentially threatening the safety and lives of the personnel on board.
Staff Sgt. Tara Zamora, 86th Medical Squadron medical technician, checks the temperature of an infant at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. LRMC is the largest American hospital outside of the U.S.
Reverand Redmond Raux, 86th Airlift Wing Chaplain office priest, officiates a Roman Catholic Mass on base. Family members and Airmen have the option to seek counseling and moral support from Ramstein’s chaplains regardless of the faith they follow.
