Archive for September, 2017

Sports

Sports Shorts — Sept. 29, 2017

CYS Winter Sports Registration Sign-up your young athletes for sports through Army Youth Sports and Fitness. Basketball & Cheerleading are each $45 and offered on Landstuhl & Sembach for children ages 5-15. Wrestling is available for ages 8-14 on Rhine Ordnance Barracks, also for $45. Register through WebTrac, by phone […]

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News

21st TSC Best Culinary Warrior named

21st TSC Best Culinary Warrior named

Story and photos by Brittany Jones
21st Theater Sustainment Command Public Affairs

Soldiers from across the 21st Theater Sustainment Command Dining Facility footprint competed for the title of 21st TSC Culinary Warrior of the Year, Sept. 8, at the Clock Tower Cafe on Kleber Kaserne.

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Schools

Education Notes — Sept. 29, 2017

Education Notes — Sept. 29, 2017

Engineering Classes Children will be introduced to the fundamentals of engineering. Students will have an opportunity to build electrical engines, working draw-bridges, fully functioning cranes and basic gear boxes. Students will also be introduced to engineering concepts using pneumatic principles and equipment. All of this is done using the registered […]

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Health, Lifestyle

Community Corner — Sept. 29, 2017

Airman & Family Readiness Center MONDAY Want to Know About VA Benefits Briefing: 10 a.m. to noon, A&FRC TUESDAY Sponsorship-Sponsoring in the KMC: 9 to 10 a.m., A&FRC Sponsorship-Spouse Sponsorship: 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., A&FRC Key Spouse Initial Training, Day 1: 4 to 7 p.m., A&FRC WEDNESDAY Newcomers Base INTRO: […]

September 28, 2017 ×

Features

Senior Airman Dylan Scott, 7th Weather Squadron regional weather maintenance technician, performs final checks on a TMQ-53, tactical meteorological observing system, during a demonstration at the Warfighter Weather Conference Sept. 14 on Kapaun. The conference brought together 33 units assigned to several combatant commands, NATO partners, and sister services with the intent to educate and network between operators and leadership.

Warfighter Weather Conference: Weathermen predict efficiency

Story and photos by Airman 1st Class D. Blake Browning
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

Airmen assigned to the 21st Operational Weather Squadron held the first Warfighter Weather Conference, Sept. 14 to 16, on Kapaun Air Station.

September 21, 2017 ×

News

Retired Air Force Col. Kenneth Cordier, a former Vietnam prisoner of war (1966 to 1973), and Col. Matthew Villella, 435th Air Expeditionary Wing and 435th Air Ground Operations Wing vice commander, place the POW/MIA memorial wreath Sept. 15 on Ramstein’s River Rats memorial. According to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, there are no more than 82,000 military members unaccounted for from past conflicts, 1,600 from Vietnam alone.

Ramstein recognizes National POW/MIA Day

Story and photos by Senior Airman Jimmie D. Pike
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

Members of Ramstein Air Base came together at the Ramstein Officers’ Club for a luncheon and wreath laying ceremony to observe National Prisoners Of War/Missing In Action Recognition Day on Sept. 15. National POW/MIA Recognition Day is observed on the third Friday of September each year and, though first recognized […]

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News

Sabine Allen, graphic designer and spouse of Army Staff Sgt. Anthony Allen, Religious Service Office noncommissioned officer in charge at Kleber Kaserne, uses her drawing tablet at her home Sept. 13 on Vogelweh. Allen recently won the 86th Force Support Squadron Continuous Process Improvement office and Innovation Program’s logo contest.

KMC spouse wins CPI office logo contest

by Airman 1st Class Devin M. Rumbaugh
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

A military spouse from the Kaiserslautern Military Community won the 86th Force Support Squadron Continuous Process Improvement office and Innovation Program logo contest held from July 10 to Aug. 10. The contest involved combining the idea of innovation with the 86th Airlift Wing into a single logo. “We needed a […]

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Blotter, News

KMC Blotter — Sept. 22, 2017

Sept. 11 3:56 a.m.: Drunken operation of vehicle and fleeing the scene of a major traffic accident on A-63 near Goellheim 2:45 p.m.: Assault and larceny of private property in Reuschbach Sept. 13 3:44 p.m.: Major traffic collision with injuries and disabling damages in Ellenberg Sept. 14 9:55 a.m.: Major […]

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Features, News

Take Note — Sept. 22, 2017

A6 interchange closes Due to street repair works, autobahn A6 will be reduced to just one lane near Einsiedlerhof direction Kaiserslautern/Mann-heim Oct. 7. Interchange Kaisers-lautern-Einsiedlerhof direction Mann-heim/Kaisers–lautern will totally close to traffic from 4 a.m. to 10 p.m. Motorists cannot exit at Einsiedlerhof coming from Saarbruecken, and they cannot drive […]

September 21, 2017 ×

News

No ordinary dog

No ordinary dog

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

Ramstein welcomed a new canine candidate to its 86th Security Forces Squadron military working dog team. Orca is a two-year-old German shepherd who is currently being evaluated to see if he has what it takes to become a permanent team member at Ramstein.

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