Archive for June, 2013

News

POS ONE installation to occur at post offices

Courtesy of the 86th Communications Squadron

Mailing services for packages will be affected at the Northside and Southside annex post offices Monday and at the Kapaun Post Office July 1 due to installation of Point of Sales Terminals.

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Photo by Airman 1st Class Dymekre AllenWing inspectionCapt. Daniel Sabatelli, 37th Airlift Squadron, inspects the wings of a C-130J Super Hercules June 12 on Ramstein. The 37th AS regularly conducts airlifts, airdrops and aeromedical evacuation operations for the largest air base in Europe.

Photos From Around the KMC

                       

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Features

Family advocacy goes purple

Family advocacy goes purple

Story and photo by Airman 1st Class Jordan Castelan
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

Ramstein’s Family Advocacy Program has teamed up with the Army’s Family Advocacy Program team to strengthen the means of promoting an emotionally healthy household around the KMC.

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Base access, visitor process explained

by Senior Airman Bradley Beaty
86th Security Forces Squadron

All personnel assigned to, working on, visiting or residing on KMC Air Force installations should obey base entry procedures, including Installation Access Control System registration processes and escort procedures for visitors.

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New PDG available

New PDG available

by Air Education and Training Command Public Affairs

The new Professional Development Guide, AFPAM 36-2241, is now available at www.e-publishing.af.mil.

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USA Girl Scouts Overseas play in the water during their field trip to the water treatment facility June 13 on Ramstein. The 786th Civil Engineer Squadron tests and purifies the drinking water for the KMC to ensure the distributed water is consumable for Airmen and civilians on base.

786th CES hydrates KMC with purified H2O

Story and photo by Airman 1st Class Dymekre Allen
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

The 786th Civil Engineer Squadron tests and analyses the drinking water for the KMC to ensure the distributed water is consumable for Airmen and civilians on base.

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A member of the German army reserve unit hands Pfc. Linda Castillo a bowl of cabbage salad during the “Thank You Wounded Warriors” luncheon June 14 at the USO Warrior Center on Wilson Barracks.

Luncheon honors wounded warriors, Army birthday

Story and photo by Dijon Rolle
U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern Public Affairs

Members of the garrison’s Directorate of Emergency Services hosted a “Thank You Wounded Warriors” luncheon June 14 at the USO Warrior Center on Wilson Barracks.

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Staff Sgt. Mark Korte, a team sergeant from Company B, 457th Civil Affairs Battalion, 361st CA Brigade, 7th Civil Support Command, shows where his unit was located during his recent Afghanistan deployment in comparison to the deployment location for Bulgarian Army Capt. Galin Ivanov Dobrev, commander of 1st Bde. Module, Civil Military Cooperation team, CIMIC Co., Land Forces at the Gorna Banya Military Base June 11.

7th CSC Soldiers teach civil affairs concepts to Bulgarian CIMIC

Story and photo by Sgt. 1st Class Matthew Chlosta
7th Civil Support Command Public Affairs

Civil affairs Soldiers with the 7th Civil Support Command and Bulgarian Army Land Forces’ Civil Military Cooperation troops deployed to Afghanistan in the past several years to conduct CA and CIMIC operations, respectively.

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Courtesy photoU.S. Army civilian firefighter Christoph Himbert (right) helps with sandbagging operations on the Elbe River. Civilian firefighters from U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern and U.S. Army Garrison Baden-Württemberg mobilized to support Germany’s efforts to combat floods following weeks of rainy weather.

Garrison firefighters assist during recent floods

by Rick Scavetta
U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern Public Affairs

As Germany’s Elbe River rose steadily toward a wall of sandbags, U.S. Army civilian firefighter Dieter Dörfler and his comrades stacked sandbags to hold the water back.

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Meet your new vice commander

Meet your new vice commander

NAME: Col. Leslie T. Smith Jr. POSITION: 86th Airlift Wing vice commander YEARS IN THE AIR FORCE: 21 FLYING HOURS: More than 3,900 AIRCRAFT FLOWN: C-130E/H/H2 and C-20 AWARDS: Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal with three oak leaf clusters,  and the Air Medal with two oak leaf clusters […]

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