News for the Ramstein, Kaiserslautern, Landstuhl & Baumholder military communities in Germany 
***image1***Brig. Gen. Rosanne Bailey, 435th Air Base Wing and KMC commander, recognized Staff Sgt. Ian Black, 700th Contracting Squadron, and his wife, Tanya, for their efforts to raise the morale of wounded troops at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center and those at Kleber Kaserne. The couple bought troops sub sandwiches and […]
***image1***Airman 1st Class Arthur Finzen III, 435th Logistics Readiness Squadron fuel distribution pumper, prepares an R-11 fuel truck to pump fuel. Airman Finzen pumped 1,000,000 gallons of fuel to aircraft on Ramstein in March. He is only the second person to accomplish that feat at Ramstein on eight-hour shifts.
The U.S. Air Forces in Europe Operational Weather Squadron recently earned the 2004 Fawbush Miller Award for Outstanding Weather Squadron.
The Air Force-level Fawbush Miller Award is decided through packages submitted from the eight operational weather squadrons around the world.
The squadron here, which also won three 2004 USAFE awards, took the Fawbush award for the first time since 1999.
Ricardo Quinones, an Army civilian at the 21st Theater Support Command, recently received the Outstanding COMSEC Custodian of 2004 for outside continental United States
The 22nd Annual Special Olympics Spring Games 2005 are Wednesday at the German Police Academy in Enkenbach-Alsenborn.
The 435th Medical Group recently started training on a new centralized record-keeping system designed to replace patient medical files with electronic ones.
April 22 was Worldwide Earth Day and Ramstein participated by planting trees, opening state-of-the-art trash bins and promoting environmental awareness.
***image1***Issue: The last time I checked, it was illegal and dangerous to use a cell phone on base or off base in Germany while operating a motor vehicle. I have observed blatant disregard for this law by drivers of U.S. Army Europe registered vehicles. Recently, I was walking in the […]
Quick, name five notable Asian Pacific Americans. Having trouble? If a few names like Ann Curry, “Today Show” host; Maya Lin, Vietnam memorial designer; M. Night Shyamalan, film director and screenwriter; Gen. Eric Shinseki, U.S. Army Chief of Staff; or Tiger Woods, golf pro; didn’t come to mind, then May […]
***image1***When I think about leadership and organizational success, trains come to mind as a useful analogy. Just as all of a train’s components are essential and must work in concert with one another for it to reach its final destination, all Airmen play an important and integral role in helping […]
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