Archive for August, 2013

News

Expeditionary Skills Inspection

Expeditionary Skills Inspection

Airmen take the prone position while taking cover from simulated attacks during a wing readiness inspection.

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Patton Retreat

Patton Retreat

Soldiers from the Headquarters Company, U.S. Army Garrison Baden-Württemberg, prepare to fold the American flag during the Final Retreat ceremony on Patton Barracks in Heidelberg.

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News

21st TSC helps move equipment to Afghanistan

21st TSC helps move equipment to Afghanistan

Story and photo by Staff Sgt. Warren W. Wright Jr.
21st TSC Public Affairs

Using a process called multi-modal transportation, the 21st Theater Sustainment Command oversaw and coordinated the movement of equipment in more than 200 TRICON type containers from their home station in Vilseck, Germany, to their unit, the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, in Afghanistan, beginning June 21 and spanning the course of 28 days.

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News

Air Force e-Learning features free online tools

Courtesy of 86th Force Support Squadron

Are you an Air Force active duty or civilian member who needs just-in-time self-development tools without an accompanying price tag?

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News

Inspection lab keeps aircraft healthy

Inspection lab keeps aircraft healthy

Story and photos by Senior Airman Chris Willis
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

The 86th Maintenance Squadron nondestructive inspection lab is in many ways similar to the services provided by a medical lab.

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News

ERMC welcomes new command team

ERMC welcomes new command team

by Shane Sharp
ERMC Public Affairs

Brig. Gen. Jeffrey B. Clark relinquished command of the Europe Regional Medical Command to Col. John P. Collins during a ceremony July 30 at Sembach Kaserne.

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Features

First sergeants’ corner: Don’t become spoiled milk

by Master Sgt John D. Carbon
721st Aircraft Maintenance Squadron and 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing staff agencies first sergeant

You are the sum of your up-bringing … there is no magic pill! Every experience in life has made you who you are today. In competitions, most of the time, people lose.

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Features

Minister president visits

Minister president visits

Minister President of Rheinland-Pfalz Malu Dreyer and Brig. Gen. Patrick X. Mordente, 86th Airlift Wing commander, pose for a photo with the deputy mayor of Ramstein-Miesenbach, Ludwig Linsmayer and employees of the Window to Rheinland-Pfalz counter in the Kaiserslautern Military Community Center Tuesday on Ramstein.

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News

Hagel announces reduction in civilian furlough days

American Forces Press Service

Hundreds of thousands of Defense Department civilian employees who have had to take a weekly unpaid day off from work since July 8 are getting some relief, as the total number of furlough days has been reduced from 11 to six, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced Tuesday.

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Blotter

KMC Blotter – Aug. 9

Complied by the 569th USFPS and 86th SFS

9:15 a.m.: A major traffic accident was reported on Kleber Kaserne.

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