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MORÓN AIR BASE, Spain — In Sevilla, Spain, a small base is operating with a big mission: supporting military aircraft and personnel during contingencies so they can reach their destinations within Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Morón Air Base is a special, flexible base which expands from a skeleton […]

The Ramstein and Vogelweh fitness centers annual Biggest Loser program is scheduled to begin Jan. 20 at the Southside fitness center on Ramstein Air Base. “The overall goal of our Biggest Loser program is to get people to become active and provide different avenues to explore fitness,” said Summer Whisennand, […]

When Senior Airman Yumi Podjuban, 86th Operations Support Squadron intelligence analyst, joined the Air Force she knew nothing about the honor guard, but gravitated toward the special duty because she felt it was a good way to give back. Overseas, the honor guard program is comprised solely of volunteers, and […]

Families of deployed Airmen came to see Santa as part of the Deployed Families Holiday Event at J.R. Rockers Dec. 15 on Ramstein Air Base. The Airman and Family Readiness Center organizes deployed family member events once a month, which are offered to family members of deployed Airmen to increase […]

OŚWIĘCIM, Poland — The 16th Special Troops Battalion recently conducted a Staff Ride to Oswiecim, Poland, for all leaders at the platoon level and above. Oswiecim is probably known better by its German name during World War II, Auschwitz, and it was the location of an infamous Nazi death camp complex. While there, participants took part in guided tours, seminars, and visits to different museums dedicated to the Holocaust. The staff ride concluded with participants traveling to Nuremberg, Germany, to visit the courthouse museum where the major Nazi war criminals were tried by an international military tribunal shortly after the war. The staff ride served as the culminating event in a three-month leader professional development train-up for all participants. The innovative program sharpened leaders’ ethical and critical decision-making skills through a practical exercise that led them through the Army Regulation 15-6 investigation process on a World War II case study.

What may look like a messy room could possibly hide clues to alcohol or drug problems, if you know where to look. U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz Army Substance Abuse Program offers “Mock Barracks Health and Welfare” and “Hidden in Plain Sight” training to help unit leaders and concerned community members […]