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Ramstein Air Base’s East Gate off L369 is permanently closed, as the long awaited Rhine Ordnance Barracks Medical Center (ROB-MC) Access Control Point (ACP) opens. The new ACP (or gate in Air Force speak) was built in preparation for the new medical center and will enable the anticipated increase in […]

The annual American Kindergraves ceremony was held at the American Kindergraves Memorial in the Kaiserslautern City Cemetery, May 14. The memorial honors 451 American infants who died shortly after birth at the American military hospital in Landstuhl or nearby civilian hospitals from 1952 to 1971. “Kindergraves are a tangible testimony […]

The Department of Defense announced that Ramstein Air Base won the 2022 Commander in Chief’s Annual Award for Installation Excellence, May 17.

For over 80 years the United Service Organization has been providing U.S. military members on active duty, reserve and guard, and their families, a place of refuge while traveling or off duty at their duty station. Morón Air Base, Spain, has hosted a few temporary USO locations on base, but […]

The 65th Air Base Group at Lajes Field, Azores, Portugal, known as the “Crossroads of the Atlantic,” provides an important mid-Atlantic link for U.S. and Allied forces traveling to and from Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

Sgt. 1st Class Rocco Covelli, 1st Engineer Battalion, was a World War II veteran and Silver Star recipient when he retired from the U.S. Army in 1966. He had demonstrated gallantry in action during wartime. But it was the strength he modeled at home, along with his wife Angela, that […]