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Five years ago Sgt. 1st Class Ilker Irmak competed in his first U.S. Army Best Warrior Competition and while he thought he was prepared, he came up short. He took his lessons learned from that opportunity and put them to work to earn the third place title in this year’s competition held at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia.

KMC students, family members and friends joined troops from the 21st Special Troops Battalion for a fiesta in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month Oct. 14 at the Kazabra Club on Vogelweh.

Hochspeyer’s Halloween haunted house, the Little Horror Shop, will open 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, and 7 to 10:30 p.m. Monday at Kirchstrasse 5. The entire family will be able to enter the bewitched house and experience spooky scenarios in the dark. Vampires, ghosts and monsters will give visitors the […]

War used to be fought solely with tanks and airplanes, but in an age of technology, some would argue the keyboard is mightier than the sword.

“My grandmother and both of her sisters had breast cancer,” said Senior Airman Jordan Hebner, 86th Dental Squadron dental technician, recounting her story of why she joined the fight to raise breast cancer awareness. “She survived it twice and also had seven children while battling it. They didn’t give up, and they kept fighting the fight so I could do the same thing.”

Spiritual fitness doesn’t necessarily mean ensuring you regularly go to a personal place of worship. Ramstein’s religious support teams — one chaplain and one chaplain assistant — are on standby to assist Airmen in crisis, who need religious support, or who just want to talk things out without fear of retribution.