Archive for March, 2012

News

Commander visits GSU

Commander visits GSU

March 30, 2012 ×

News

Eyes on the JTAC

Eyes on the JTAC

Story and photos by 2nd Lt. Kay M. Nissen
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

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.

March 30, 2012 ×

News

Changes to milpay increase efficiency

by Airman 1st Class Trevor Rhynes
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

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.

March 30, 2012 ×

News

Joint training maintains proficiency

Joint training maintains proficiency

by Airman 1st Class Trevor Rhynes
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

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.

March 23, 2012 ×

Sports

Soccer program scores goal with kids, parents

Soccer program scores goal with kids, parents

by Mindy Campbell
U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern

Inside an empty hangar on Rhine Ordnance Barracks, a dozen young
children and their parents surround a fenced-off patch of green
artificial turf.

March 23, 2012 ×

Sports

Bobcats take on Raptors in championship game

Bobcats take on Raptors in championship game

March 23, 2012 ×

News

LRMC Synapse Program: Helping service members with TBI

by Dr. Kendra Wagers
Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, rehabilitation psychologist/TBI research coordinator

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.

March 23, 2012 ×

Lifestyle

Homburg ceramics market

Homburg ceramics market

by Petra Lessoing
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

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.

March 23, 2012 ×

Schools

KHS FBLA racks up medals

KHS FBLA racks up medals

Future Business Leaders of America is the largest and oldest business student organization in the world.

March 23, 2012 ×

News

Concentration camp survivor to speak at remembrance ceremony

by Ed Drohan
Europe Regional Medical Command Public Affairs

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

March 23, 2012 ×
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