Archive for July, 2011

Features

Garrison earns Army safety award

Garrison earns Army safety award

Story and photo by Rick Scavetta
U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern

During a recent award ceremony, Kathleen Marin, Installation Management
Command Europe acting director, presented the Army Safety Composite Risk
Management Award to U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern.

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News

Happy anniversary, sister wing

Happy anniversary, sister wing

Story and photos by Staff Sgt. Tyrona Lawson
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

Brig. Gen. Mark Dillon, 86th Airlift Wing commander, visited Poland

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Lifestyle

Burg Lichtenberg: fortress serves as perfect family getaway

Burg Lichtenberg: fortress serves as perfect family getaway

Story and photo by A.L. Shaff
Contributing writer

Never defeated, never taken, never occupied by enemy forces, Burg
Lichtenberg wanders over the ridges of a Palatinate hill like a goliath.

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Lifestyle

Introducing the KMC’s newest residents!

Introducing the KMC’s newest residents!

Send the KA your baby’s birth announcement:

Include your baby

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Lifestyle

Get it all out!

Get it all out!

by Petra Lessoing
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

Kaiserslautern

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News

Command streamlines moves during busy season

by Army Sgt. 1st Class Tyrone C. Marshall Jr.
American Forces Press Service

Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command officials are
working hard to continually improve processes for military families
moving to new duty stations during an exceptionally busy summer, the
command

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Lifestyle

Talent shines at Apollo Night

by Senior Airman Katherine Holt
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

“MOVE! Get out the way, get out the way, get out the way,” is what contestants at Apollo Night do not want to hear coming from the DJ’s booth. Once they hear that song, their time is up. Though this Apollo Night is a spinoff of the original Amateur Night […]

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Features

Dental clinic on Kleber Kaserne opening soon

Dental clinic on Kleber Kaserne opening soon

After years of hard work, the U.S. Army Health and Dental Clinic on
Kleber Kaserne will soon be an even better facility than before with
combined medical and dental services, said Maj. Lawanda D. Warthen, U.S.
Army Health Clinic-Kaiserslautern commander.

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Features

Douhet’s Dream

Douhet’s Dream

by Dr. Marshall Michel
52nd Fighter Wing historian

Though the Italian general Giulio Douhet is often considered the father
of strategic bombing, his theories were not heard by the Italian air
force after World War I, and by the mid-1930s, when America and Great
Britain were developing four engine long range bombers, Italy had none.

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Features

International participants add ‘flavor’ to Air Mobility Rodeo 2011

International participants add ‘flavor’ to Air Mobility Rodeo 2011

by Master Sgt. Scott T. Sturkol
Air Mobility Rodeo 2011 Public Affairs

At the opening ceremonies for Air Mobility Rodeo here July 24, service
members from more than 25 nations were among the nearly 3,000 mobility
personnel in formation around the McChord Field flightline.

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