Archive for March, 2012
News
Eyes on the JTAC
A simulated Army platoon cautiously approaches a quiet urban village,
their senses are heightened, no friendlies are in the area, but they
know they have a target to take care of.
News
Changes to milpay increase efficiency
The Defense Military Pay Office returned to U.S. Air Forces in Europe
command Monday. Milpay transactions include cost of living allowance,
family separation allowance and more, which will now be processed by
finance offices from each individual base instead of at the Central
Processing Center at Ellsworth Air Force Base, North Dakota.
News
Joint training maintains proficiency
The 37th Airlift Squadron completed a weeklong airdrop training exercise
with a 10-bundle container delivery system drop at a drop zone near
Grafenwöhr, Germany, March 16.
Sports
Soccer program scores goal with kids, parents
Inside an empty hangar on Rhine Ordnance Barracks, a dozen young
children and their parents surround a fenced-off patch of green
artificial turf.
News
LRMC Synapse Program: Helping service members with TBI
Traumatic Brain Injury has been called the signature injury of the wars
in Afghanistan and Iraq, and after 10 years at war, many of our service
members have been repeatedly exposed to events that have the potential
of causing a brain injury.
Lifestyle
Homburg ceramics market
Just in time for Easter, more than 100 artisans from all over Germany,
France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands will show off their
ceramic works Saturday and Sunday in the center of Homburg.
Schools
KHS FBLA racks up medals
Future Business Leaders of America is the largest and oldest business student organization in the world.
News
Concentration camp survivor to speak at remembrance ceremony
Dr. Eva Iszak Djordjevic was 17 when American Soldiers entered the
infamous Dachau Concentration Camp in April 1945, liberating her and
thousands of other prisoners who had survived the Holocaust. After being
treated for typhoid fever, she returned to her home of Belgrade,
Yugoslavia (now Serbia), and hasn