Archive for July, 2010

News

Safety Corner

• Personal Protection Equipment saves lives, use it properly … every time!” • Does your child’s bicycle helmet still fit properly? How much is what helmets protect worth? • Did you turn off your coffee pot this morning? For questions, call the 86th Airlift Wing Safety Office at 480-7233.

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News

1st Sergeant’s Corner

Are you interested in pursuing a career as a First Sergeant?

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News

Civil Engineers’ Corner

Did you know?

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Features

McDonnell’s First Spirit

McDonnell’s First Spirit

by Dr. Marshall Michel
52nd Fighter Wing historian

In 1942, the U.S. Naval Bureau of Aeronautics requested that McDonnell
Aircraft design a jet interceptor to operate from aircraft carriers. On
August 30, 1943 the Navy awarded McDonnell a contract for two
prototypes of the new fighter, to be designated XFD-1, using one of the
turbojet engines under development by the Westinghouse Electric
Corporation.

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News

Transformation plan to improve Vogelweh, traffic patterns to change

Transformation plan to improve Vogelweh, traffic patterns to change

Courtesy of 86 Airlift Wing Public Affairs

From a new high school and sports stadium to more than 1,000 new or
renovated housing units, improving the quality of life in the
Kaiserslautern Military community is the focus behind these and many
other projects in the

July 30, 2010 ×

News

Daenner Cyclone 10 puts 7th CSC to the test

Daenner Cyclone 10 puts 7th CSC to the test

by Spc. Glenn M. Anderson
7th CSC Public Affairs

On an unusually sunny Monday morning in June, members of the 7th Civil
Support Command Headquarters gathered on the parade field at Daenner
Kaserne, here, to begin a four-day exercise known as Daenner

Cyclone

July 30, 2010 ×

News

Closest thing to combat: ALLIED STRIKE

Closest thing to combat: ALLIED STRIKE

by Senior Airman Scott Saldukas
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

GRAFENWOEHR, Germany 

July 30, 2010 ×

Sports

LRMC offers appointments for sports physicals

The Landstuhl Regional Medical Center Department of Pediatrics will
offer its annual Sports Physicals Day by appointment only from 8 a.m.
to 3 p.m. Aug. 16 in the LRMC Heaton Auditorium.

July 23, 2010 ×

Lifestyle

Garden fair opens event hall

Garden fair opens event hall

by Petra Lessoing

86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

The Garden Fair Kaiserslautern has expanded. In spring, construction of
a new exhibition and event hall started, and Monday, parts of the
1,000-square-meter building officially opened.

July 23, 2010 ×

Lifestyle

Annweiler holds sixth medieval festival

Annweiler holds sixth medieval festival

by Petra Lessoing

86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

Annweiler will sponsor its sixth medieval festival today to Sunday to honor Richard the Lionheart of Brittany.

July 23, 2010 ×
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