Archive for June, 2017

Features, News

Application window opens for enlisted RPA pilot selection board

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas —Airmen interested in becoming enlisted remotely piloted aircraft pilots have until Nov. 15, 2017, to submit completed application packages, including physical exams, to the Air Force Personnel Center. Applicants may be staff sergeants through senior master sergeants in any Air Force specialty code who are […]

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Features, News

Capts. Haley Wilson, 603rd Air Operations Center strategy division officer, left, and Kevin Durr, Warrior Preparation Center program manager, pin their new ranks on each other during their promotion ceremony May 26 on Ramstein. The ceremony was presided over by Lt. Gen. Richard M. Clark, 3rd Air Force commander.

3rd AF CC promotes 13 to captain

Story and photos by Airman 1st Class Joshua Magbanua
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

Thirteen officers were promoted to the rank of captain May 26 on Ramstein in a ceremony presided over by Lt. Gen. Richard M. Clark, 3rd Air Force commander.

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Features, News

KMC first sergeants mentor CGOs

KMC first sergeants mentor CGOs

Story and photos by Airman 1st Class Joshua Magbanua
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

Company grade officers from around the Kaiserslautern Military Community participated in a professional enhancement seminar on Ramstein. The PES was themed “Building a Better Leader for the Enlisted Force,” and was hosted by the KMC First Sergeant Council. The seminar enhanced the ability of CGOs to be more effective and […]

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Features, News

Airmen pack their rucks in remembrance

Airmen pack their rucks in remembrance

by Senior Airman Elizabeth Baker
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs
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Features

USAG RP celebrates Army birthday with 5K run

USAG RP celebrates Army birthday with 5K run

by Mary Ann Davis
U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz Installation Management Command Directorate

Do you know how the U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz celebrates the Army birthday? By hitting the ground running, that’s how!

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Features, Health, News

LRMC, Army clinics’ phone wait times increase — Save time, schedule appointments online

LRMC, Army clinics’ phone wait times increase — Save time, schedule appointments online

by Landstuhl Regional Medical Center Public Affairs

Due to a current staffing shortage, the Appointment Line wait times may be longer than normal for patients of Landstuhl Regional Medical Center and the Army Health Clinics at Kleber, Baumholder and Wiesbaden installations. To help save patients time, the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center team is encouraging TRICARE beneficiaries to […]

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News

Join spouse assignment consideration keeps mil-to-mil couples together

by Kat Bailey
Air Force Personnel Center Public Affairs

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas — Summertime is a busy season for permanent changes of station and military couples may be apprehensive about the possibility of being separated from their spouses during their next assignments. They have little to be concerned about, however, as the Air Force Personnel Center has an accommodation rate of more than 96 percent for mil-to-mil married couples through the assignment of military couples option, commonly known across the Air Force as a “join spouse” assignment.

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Features

One man’s trash is the enemy’s treasure

One man’s trash is the enemy’s treasure

Story and photos by Staff Sgt. Nesha Humes
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

Knowledge is powerful. If significant knowledge were to get in the wrong hands, the impact could be devastating.

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Features, Lifestyle

Smallest town in Pfalz holds medieval market

Smallest town in Pfalz holds medieval market

by Petra Lessoing
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

Obermoschel in the Donnersberg area will hold a medieval market Saturday and Sunday at its nearby castle called Moschellandsburg.

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Features, Lifestyle

Otterberg celebrates spring fest Saturday to Monday

Otterberg celebrates spring fest Saturday to Monday

by Petra Lessoing
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

Otterberg will sponsor its traditional spring fest Saturday through Monday. Since the middle of the 18th century, every two years, the community celebrates this historical spring fest, in turn with the old town fest.

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