Archive for December, 2014

Lifestyle

Courtesy photoA Christmas pyramid is set up on Schlossplatz Saturday to Dec. 14.

Sankt Wendel features medieval market, ice sculptor

by Petra Lessoing
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

The romantic town of Sankt Wendel will hold its Christmas market combined with a medieval market Saturday to Dec. 14. Opening hours are from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. each day.

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News

Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Matthew ChlostaCol. Kevin M. Sanders, 7th Civil Support Command deputy commanding officer, and Command Sgt. Maj. Raymond Brown, 361st Civil Affairs Brigade, 7th CSC, senior enlisted adviser, attend the German World War I National Day of Mourning wreath laying ceremony Nov. 16 at World War I memorial sites in Spicheren, France, near the city of Saarbrücken to commemorate those who died during the war.

Soldiers attend World War I Memorial Day ceremony

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News

Meter reading happening now

Courtesy of Stadtwerke Ramstein-Miesenbach

Employees of Stadtwerke Ramstein-Miesenbach (city works) will start reading the electricity, gas and water meters now.
If customers are not available during normal working times, readers will also come early in the evening or on weekends.

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Features

Brig. Gen. Patrick X. Mordente, 86th Airlift Wing commander, does a breathing test with the MSA FireHawk mask prior to participating in a burn house training scenario Nov. 19 on Ramstein. The FireHawk is the mask used by 86th Civil Engineer Squadron firefighters when battling fires.

Wing leaders receive firefighter experience

Photos by Senior Airman Timothy Moore

       

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Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Matthew ChlostaStaff Sgt. Carlos Guardardo, Panzer Kaserne installation coordinator from the 21st Special Troops Battalion, 21st Theater Sustainment Command, plays a hand drum in accompaniment with Kevin Morris, an education technologist at Kaiserslautern Middle School, who plays a musical piece on a Native American style flute during the Native American Heritage Month celebration event Nov. 21 at the Kaiserslautern Community Activities Center.

21st TSC, 7th CSC Soldiers, civilians celebrate Native American Heritage Month

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News

From left, Sgt. 1st Class Carlos Diaz, communications NCOIC, 457th Civil Affairs Battalion, 361st Civil Affairs Brigade, 7th Civil Support Command; German air force Senior Master Sgt. Jochen Werner, German military senior enlisted liaison with the 21st Theater Sustainment Command; German Lt. Col. Thies Neelsen, German Army Logistic Command liaison officer at the 21st TSC; and Staff Sgt. Walter Egan, motor sergeant, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 361st Civil Affairs Brigade listen to German army Lt. Col. Lars Kleine, commanding officer of the foreign language training section at the German Artillery School during a tour of the German Army artillery museum Nov. 14.

7th CSC Soldiers tour German artillery school, museum

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

Five Army Reserve Soldiers from the 7th Civil Support Command visited the German Army Artillery School and Museum Nov. 14 during an information exchange event.

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News

Brig. Gen. Patrick X. Mordente, 86th Airlift Wing commander, serves turkey to KMC members on Thanksgiving Day at the Rheinland Inn Dining Facility. Mordente and several other leaders volunteered to help serve a Thanksgiving meal for KMC Airmen and their families.

86th AW leaders give thanks to Airmen

Photos by Staff Sgt. Kris Levasseur

     

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Blotter

KMC Blotter – Dec. 5, 2014

NOV. 18 8:46 a.m.: A major traffic accident with injuries was reported in Mittelbrunn. NOV. 19 8:20 a.m.: A major traffic accident was reported in Frankfurt. NOV. 20 8:09 a.m.: Fleeing the scene of a minor traffic accident was reported on Ramstein. NOV. 21 2:30 a.m.: An attempted robbery resulting in an assault was […]

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News

Senior Airman Andrey Antonyuk, 603rd Air and Space Communications Squadron RF transmissions technician, and Senior Airman Jeremy Walkes, 86th Communications Squadron Special Missions Flight Satellite Communications technician, bag a customer’s groceries during a two-day commissary bagging event for Operation Warm Heart Nov. 23 on Ramstein. Operation Warm Heart consists of two voluntary events, commissary bagging and the “Ring A Bell” campaign, which raise money for Airmen and families in need during the holiday season.

Operation Warm Heart brings holiday cheer to KMC

Story and photo by Airman 1st Class Larissa Greatwood
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

Kaiserslautern Military Community first sergeants held a voluntary commissary bagging event in support of Operation Warm Heart Nov. 22 and 23 at the Ramstein Commissary.

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Commentary

To innovate, we can’t be afraid to fail

by Col. Robert Novotny
48th Fighter Wing commander

“Throughout history, people with new ideas — who think differently and try to change things — have always been called troublemakers.” — Richelle Mead, author.

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