Archive for August, 2017

News

435 CRG trains for contingency down range

435 CRG trains for contingency down range

Story and photos by Senior Airman Elizabeth Baker
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

The mission of the 435th Contingency Response Group is to open up bare bases and air fields in austere environments. During base-opening operations, they may face a variety of threats. In the past, those who needed training to counter these threats needed to travel stateside to attend contingency response courses. […]

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Features

86 AW Command Post reacts quickly

86 AW Command Post reacts quickly

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

Every day, thousands of people come in and out of Ramstein going about their business and accomplishing a host of missions. Ramstein is part of the Kaiserslautern Military Community, which is the largest community of Americans outside the United States. The installation itself is a major hub for operations throughout […]

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Features

Hit me with your best shot

Hit me with your best shot

by Airman 1st Class Savannah L. Waters
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs
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News

Photos by Capt. Kaitlyn Heacock
Brig. Gen. Frederick R. Maiocco Jr. (left) hands the 7th Mission Support Command unit guidon over to Command Sgt. Maj. Raymond Brown, during the 7 MSC change of command ceremony Aug. 4 on Daenner Kaserne. Observing is Brig. Gen. Steven Ainsworth (foreground right), the outgoing commanding general, and Maj. Gen. Steven Shapiro (foreground left), commanding general of the 21st Theater Sustainment Command, 7 MSC’s higher headquarters.

New general takes command of 7 MSC

by Lt. Col. Jefferson Wolfe
7th Mission Support Command Public Affairs

The 7th Mission Support Command hosted its second change of command in about a year as Brig. Gen. Steven Ainsworth turned command over to Brig. Gen. Frederick R. Maiocco Jr. during a Friday morning ceremony on NCO Field on Daenner Kaserne.

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Features

Eyes on the sky keep airfield traffic safe

Eyes on the sky keep airfield traffic safe

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

Airmen in developmental special duties epitomize leadership, core values

by Kat Bailey
Air Force Personnel Center Public Affairs

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas — Air Force officials filled 770 positions across nine developmental special duties, or DSDs, for spring 2017.

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News

FLEP open for application to all services

by Department of the Army
Office of the Judge Advocate General

The Army Office of The Judge Advocate General in Washington, D.C., is now accepting applications for the Army’s Funded Legal Education Program. Under this program, the Army projects sending up to 25 active-duty commissioned officers to law school at government expense. Selected officers will attend law school beginning the fall […]

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News

Air Force to radically reduce instructions

Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs

WASHINGTON — Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson announced the Air Force will seek to significantly reduce unnecessary Air Force instructions over the next 24 months in order to allow greater flexibility and mission focus.

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News

LRMC, Army clinics in Europe open USAREUR training holidays

by Landstuhl Regional Medical Center Public Affairs

Landstuhl Regional Medi-cal Center and LRMC clinics throughout Europe are open during U.S. Army Europe training holidays to help service members keep up on their medical and dental readiness needs. All Army health and dental facilities in Kaisers-lau-tern, Baumholder, Wies-baden, Brussels, SHAPE and Vicenza will be open for appointments for […]

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Lifestyle

Kirchheimbolanden sponsors 3-day summer fest

Kirchheimbolanden sponsors 3-day summer fest

by Petra Lessoing
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

Kirchheimbolanden will celebrate its 67th annual “Residenzfest,” “residence fest,” under the motto “Three summer days in the little residence” from Saturday to Monday. The summer fest will feature live music, dance performances, culinary specialties and regional wines in backyards and along medieval walls, gates and towers.

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