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Kindergraves memorial service, Saturday

Kindergraves memorial service, Saturday

Terence DeLay
Retired Chief Master Sergeant

Contributing writer

The annual Kindergraves memorial ceremony takes place Saturday at the
Kaiserslautern Main Cemetery (Waldfriedhof). The Air Force Junior
Reserve Officer Training Corps Color Guard leads the procession 10 a.m.
from Daenner Chapel to the gravesites.

May 18, 2007 ×

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Chaplain Emil Kapaun: April 20, 1916 – May 23, 1951

Chaplain Emil Kapaun: April 20, 1916 – May 23, 1951

Senior Master Sgt. Frederick Smith
435th ABW History Office

You may know the name of U.S. Army Captain Emil J. Kapaun. But, but do you know his story?

May 18, 2007 ×

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Aircraft, awful and awesome:U.S. Navy’s first jet The Ryan XR-1 Fireball

Aircraft, awful and awesome:
U.S. Navy’s first jet
The Ryan XR-1 Fireball

Dr. Marshall Michel
86th Airlift Wing Historian

The first American jet aircraft, the Army Air Force

May 18, 2007 ×

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Ready… Aim… Fire!

Ready… Aim… Fire!

May 18, 2007 ×

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Wounded troops in hands of liaisons at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center

Wounded troops in hands of liaisons at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center

Staff Sgt. Osvaldo Sanchez
7th Army Reserve Command Public Affairs Office

When thinking of wounded Soldiers one thinks of the doctors and nurses
looking after them at the hospital, but sometimes Soldiers are not
tracked or have lost their identification cards during their transfer
from downrange. That is where a team at the Landstuhl Regional Medical
Center is working 24 hours a day, seven days a week to keep tabs on the
injured.

May 18, 2007 ×

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Spiritual Healing

Spiritual Healing

Airman 1st Class Julianne Showalter
Kaiserslautern American

Ramstein

May 11, 2007 ×

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Aircraft, awful and awesome:Flying Propaganda Machine

Aircraft, awful and awesome:
Flying Propaganda Machine

Dr. Marshall Michel
86th Airlift Wing historian

One of the first priorities of the Soviet Union

May 11, 2007 ×

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Aircraft, awful and awesome:Fisher XP-75 Eagle

Aircraft, awful and awesome:
Fisher XP-75 Eagle

Dr. Marshall Michel
86th Airlift Wing historian

If ever an aircraft was misnamed, it was the XP-75, which should have
been called the

May 4, 2007 ×

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Here come our heroes

Here come our heroes

Christine June
U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern

***image1***“Heroes at Home” were honored April 19 at the U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern’s volunteer recognition ceremony at the Armstrong Community Club on Vogelweh Housing. Volunteers donated close to 100,000 hours this year − a savings of more than $1 million dollars, said Angela Bellamy, USAGK Volunteer Corps coordinator. “Our volunteers […]

April 27, 2007 ×

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Aircraft, awful and awesome: Martin XB-51

Aircraft, awful and awesome: Martin XB-51

Dr. Marshall Michel
86th Airlift Wing historian

In February 1946 the Army Air Forces asked for designs for a
low-altitude attack aircraft, a type that had been very successful in
the Pacific theater in World War II.

April 27, 2007 ×