Features

Free skating and crafts equaled family fun at the U.S. Army Garrison
Kaiserslautern

Pop-rock band, Lit, and Country-Western band, Matt Poss & The Wild
Bunch performed several back-to-back concerts here in late June.

It was 1967. I was in pilot training, and the air war over North
Vietnam, called Rolling Thunder, was raging, and Air Force aircraft
were going daily to the flak and SAM filled skies over Hanoi and
suffered brutal losses.We young lieutenants listened to the stories of
the war from those who had returned with a mix of fear and awe.  The
famous names rolled across half a world − Kasler, Risner, Broughton,
Richter − but above all was Olds.

The fabrication flight is one of the largest and busiest of seven
flights assigned to the 86th Maintenance Squadron. Fifty-eight people
work in four distinct duty sections: structural maintenance, metals
technology, non-destructive inspection and survival equipment. Together
they help the 86th Maintenance Group keep the 40-plus year-old aircraft
mission ready day in and day out. Give these folks enough time and
material and they can make a C-130 from scratch. Here are a few
examples of what these maintainers achieve in keeping Ramstein

Helicopters were just beginning to come into service at the end of
World War II, but the German Air Force had little need for one

Rising gas prices have made filling the old gas tank a regular
nightmare. Imagine a gas tank that holds thousands of gallons and needs
to be filled on a regular basis.