Archive for April, 2015

News

Community Corner

Airman & Family Readiness Center For more information or to sign up for a class, call the Airman & Family Readiness Center at 480-5100. MONDAY » Ramstein Spouses orientation: 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., A&FRC TUESDAY » Reintegration briefing: 9 to 11 a.m., IDRC » Managing Your Money: 9 to 10 a.m., A&FRC […]

April 24, 2015 ×

News

Mark Your Calendar – April 24, 2015

Events » April is Month of the Military Child. To celebrate the important role that military children play in the armed forces community, Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation and 86th Force Support Squadron present the Month of the Military Child Fest from 10 a.m to 3 p.m. Saturday at Pulaski […]

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Features

April: Month of the Military Child, ‘When we serve, you serve’

April: Month of the Military Child, ‘When we serve, you serve’

Photos by Tech. Sgt. Micky Pena and Senior Airman Damon Kasberg

Month of the Military Child, ‘When we serve, you serve’.

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Lifestyle

Was ist Los? KMC Cultural Highlights

Was ist Los? KMC Cultural Highlights

by Petra Lessoing 86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

The following is a list of performances and events happening in the KMC and nearby locations. Dates are subject to change. Performing arts: Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern: • “Everyman,” a rock mystery with the progressive metal band Vanden Plas, 7:30 p.m. today, May 5, 9 and 15, and 6 p.m. May 3 […]

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Lifestyle

Germans observe Labor Day, welcome spring

Germans observe Labor Day, welcome spring

by Petra Lessoing 86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

May 1 is a special day in Germany and some neighboring countries. Germans observe Labor Day, commemorating May 1, 1890, when it was proclaimed by the first international worker’s congress in Paris as the day of the working class.

April 23, 2015 ×

Lifestyle

Courtesy photo
Participants of the Wolfstein culinary hike can take breaks at six stations along the route on Sunday.

Culinary hike takes place in Wolfstein

by Petra Lessoing 86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

The third annual spring culinary hike in Wolfstein will take place Sunday. Interested hikers can join the walk along the 6 kilometer Panoramaweg, or panorama path, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

April 23, 2015 ×

Features

A six-man team from the 86th Medical Operations Squadron participates in the drunk goggle obstacle.

Ramstein makes sexual assault prevention CLEAR

Photos by Staff Sgt. Sara Keller
April 23, 2015 ×

Features

Soldiers from the 2nd Cavalry Regiment march into Rose Barracks, their home base, as they complete their 1,800km "Dragoon Ride" from Estonia, Lithuania and Poland on Apr. 1.

16th Sustainment Brigade supports Operation Dragoon Ride

Story and photo by Lt. Henry Chan 16th Sustainment Brigade Public Affairs

PRAGUE, Czech Republic — On March 31, three convoys carrying U.S. Soldiers, Stryker-armored vehicles and support crews from NATO bases in the Baltic States and Poland, converged on the Czech Army’s Prague-Ruzyne Barracks.

April 23, 2015 ×

Features

Senior Airman Robert Newman, 86th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron mission management technician, performs a wind drag during a survival, evasion, resistance and escape water survival course April 13 on Ramstein. Drags are practiced to simulate a parachute opening after evacuating an aircraft.

SERE trainees prepare for rough seas

Photos by Senior Airman Nicole Sikorski
April 23, 2015 ×

Features

Brig. Gen. Patrick Mordente, 86th Airlift Wing commander, shakes hands with Friedrich Wilhelm von Hase, son of German army Lt. Gen. Paul von Hase, during a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony.

Man commemorates father, Operation Valkyrie

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

Friedrich Wilhelm von Hase, son of German army Lt. Gen. Paul von Hase, spoke to the KMC April 15 at the Hercules Theater about his father’s life, death and the effect that Operation Valkyrie had on him and his family.

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