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Col. Cameron Torrens, 86th Airlift Wing vice commander, recently
appointed Tech. Sgt. Ryan Rubenstein to be the FOD manager at Ramstein.
He is responsible for keeping the flight line free of debris that might
upset the aircraft.

With the defeat of the Luftwaffe in its Battle of Britain daylight
raids, the Germans turned to night bombing to cut losses yet still
continue their attacks. As the scale of the night raids increased and
the day raids dropped to nothing the RAF, which had mainly ignored
night fighting since the German air raids in 1918, was forced into
action.

Another regular visitor to Ramstein is the Transall C-160, often from
the 86 AW

With no large body of water in sight, the Navy Expeditionary Logistics
Unit One found itself in a unique situation stationed at Sembach Annex.

If you are looking for a short day trip with a little of everything for
the whole family, look no further than an hour and a half drive to
Metz, France.

Just when Lisa Bergman thought her group had seen everything at the
Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, there was
another room full of things to see.

In the late 1970s, Gen. Wilbur Creech, commander of the Tactical Air
Command (now Air Combat Command) wanted a dual role, all weather
enhanced tactical fighter (ETF) to correct what he saw as the major
deficiency in the American tactical air forces − the inability to
attack targets, especially mobile targets, at night. Because of budget
constraints, General Creech wanted a modified version of an existing
fighter rather than an entirely new aircraft. The manufacturers of the
two main fighters in the Air Force inventory, General Dynamics (F-16)
and McDonnell Douglas (F-15), both immediately plunged into the
competition.