Soccer ball diplomacy: Airmen visit Niger
Niger villagers were smiling ear-to-ear in July when 14 Ramstein Airmen handed out 30 soccer balls and 1,000 pounds of rice.
Niger villagers were smiling ear-to-ear in July when 14 Ramstein Airmen handed out 30 soccer balls and 1,000 pounds of rice.
Consider this scenario: a mother straps in her three-year-old toddler
and six-month-old baby as her bulky key chain hangs from her mouth. As
she is strapping them into their car seats, a gust of wind knocks the
diaper bag off the roof of her SUV, spilling the contents onto the hot
pavement. She takes deep breaths, situates her children and takes off
for errands around Ramstein.
***image1***“Going above and beyond” was expressed in about 30 languages regarding the Vienna Document 1999 Military Installation Visit held Aug. 1 and 2. “They (U.S. Army Europe) went further than the provisions of the Vienna Document,” said Lt. Col. Prasenjit Chaudhuri, head of the Switzerland Verification Unit for the Vienna […]
An exceptional guest visited Ramstein from July 17 to 20
Goose bumps and chills in humid, 90-plus degree heat? Far from
impossible, it seemed to be a common affliction last Friday at the
Kleber Gymnasium, Kaiserslautern, when the arrival of the busses
carrying 37th Transportation Command Soldiers was announced shortly
before 8 a.m.
The planned four-day march beginning July 18 in Nijmegen, the
Netherlands, was canceled following the first day due to excessively
hot weather which was blamed in the deaths of two participants and
medical problems for hundreds of other marchers.
Air Force officials recently announced new Force Shaping initiatives to
be used to meet the required 2007 fiscal year end strength numbers.
Army service uniforms will be streamlined to one blue Army Service Uniform, the Army announced recently.