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A meal prepared at the Jawbone Flight Kitchen is ready and waiting for customers at Ramstein Air Base, Feb. 6. Hot meals are now served four times a day, and all pricing is done a la carte.

Jawbone Flight Kitchen provides hot meals to Ramstein Air Base

The Jawbone Flight Kitchen is now serving hot meals four times a day, Monday through Friday.

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If you think you are invincible, you must prove me wrong

This commentary was written with the assistance of several perspectives with the intention of bringing a new face to the great problem of suicide that is challenging our family of Airmen every day, and to turn our traditional take on this issue upside down so we might identify new approaches […]

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Let’s talk about: Teen dating violence

Let’s talk about: Teen dating violence

February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness month, making it the perfect time to talk about our roles in preventing dating violence in our community.

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AIRMAN & FAMILY READINESS CENTER For details and to RSVP, call 480-5100 or 06371-47-5100. Bldg. 2120, Ramstein Air Base. All training is held at A&FRC unless stated otherwise. TUESDAY Pre-Deployment Briefing: 2:30-3:30 p.m. WEDNESDAY Newcomers Base Intro: 7:30 a.m. to 12 p.m., Hercules Theater THURSDAY Newcomers USO Tour: 8:15 a.m. […]

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Chaplain (Maj.) Michael Dawson, U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz Family Life Chaplain, talks to a community member in his office on Kleber Kaserne, Kaiserslautern. Family Life Chaplain counseling services focus on resiliency areas, such as helping couples with marital relationships and those struggling with the stress and difficulties that come with everyday military life. Photo by Erinn Burgess

Garrison welcomes new Family Life Chaplain

The U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz Religious Support Office welcomed a new Family Life Chaplain this month to focus on resiliency areas, such as helping couples with marital relationships and those struggling with the stress and difficulties that come with everyday military life.

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For the past 10 years, Tony Haynesworth has been campaigning for service members, veterans and their families, to improve the patient-care experience, whether at a Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare organization or military treatment facility. Haynesworth, now assigned as Landstuhl Regional Medical Center’s lead patient advocate, says decades of experience in customer service has led him to one conclusion: communication is key to better outcomes.

LRMC’s patient advocate considers communication key

For the past 10 years, Tony Haynesworth has been campaigning for service members, veterans and their families, to improve the patient-care experience, whether at a Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare organization or military treatment facility.

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U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Sheldrick Long, 86th Maintenance Squadron aerospace propulsion journeyman, polishes a C-130J Super Hercules aircraft part at Ramstein Air Base, Feb. 7. Various parts of the aircraft must be removed during the inspections process to locate faulty parts within the aircraft. The 86th MXS works around the clock to make sure the base’s C-130J’s are maintained and ready to fly at all times.

86 MXS helps wing fly

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Sheldrick Long, 86th Maintenance Squadron aerospace propulsion journeyman, polishes a C-130J Super Hercules aircraft part at Ramstein Air Base, Feb. 7.

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U.S. Air Force Col. Matt Husemann, 86th Airlift Wing vice commander (left), Master Sgt. Hollie McCaleb, 86th maintenance squadron C-130J inspections section chief (center), and Chief Master Sgt. Ernesto Rendon, 86th AW command chief (right), pose for a photo at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Jan. 14, 2020. McCaleb was chosen as Airlifter of the Week, a program recognizing Airmen who go above and beyond in making the 86th AW the World’s Best Wing. Photo by Airman 1st Class Jennifer Gonzales

Airlifter of the Week: Leading, one lesson at a time

For one of Ramstein’s very own, servant leadership began early in an Airman’s career.
In 2005, then-Airman 1st Class Hollie McCaleb, an Honor Guard member assigned to Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, was the lead for a detail honoring a soldier killed in action.

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‘TIS THE SEASON — TAX SEASON!

‘TIS THE SEASON — TAX SEASON!

Tax season has begun and the Ramstein Tax Center wants you to know we are here for you! We realize that filing your taxes can be scary, but you don’t have to face the challenge alone.

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U.S. Air Force Technical Sgt. Heather R. Sanchez, 86th Security Forces Squadron Installation Access non-commissioned officer in charge, receives the U.S. Air Force Achievement Medal from U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Jeremy Sheppard, 86th Security Forces Squadron commander on Ramstein Air Base, Jan. 17. Sanchez received this award after saving the life of a mother visiting on base to see her son's place of work.

Technical Sgt. saves a life with CPR

The day started like any other for U.S. Air Force Technical Sgt. Heather R. Sanchez, 86th Security Forces Squadron Installation Access non-commissioned officer in charge.

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