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Recently, Ms. Sharon Emerling’s, Ms. Maxine Reid’s, and Mr. Mark Wilburn’s fifth grade students at Landstuhl Elementary Middle School went on a study trip to the Karlsruhe Zoo. While at the Karlsruhe Zoo, the fifth grade students focused on Living Systems. The zoo was a perfect place to identify the […]

Editor’s Note: This article was published in a previous edition of the Kaiserslautern American and the information has been updated to reflect this year’s event. The city of Sankt Wendel will hold its Christmas market combined with a medieval market Saturday to Dec. 16. More than 140 little decorated houses […]

Airmen assigned to the 86th Airlift Wing successfully conducted a mass generation exercise preparing multiple C-130J Super Hercules aircraft, a multi-aircraft sortie, and an elephant walk prior to takeoff on Ramstein Air Base, Nov 8. Airmen assigned to multiple units across the base had a hand in the exercise, as […]

The 86th Airlift Wing Host Nation Grassroots program partnered military members and military spouses with local Germans at an elementary school in Dansenberg, Nov. 20. The event, aimed to promote reading to German youth, allows Airmen and families to engage and promote friendship, said Roberto da Costa, 86th Airlift Wing […]

The 86th Airlift Wing hosted a flight commander’s course to prepare leaders for their new positions at the Officers Club, Nov. 15 to 16. It is common for units to thrust the responsibility of commanding flights onto company grade officers the moment they arrive on station. The course eases the […]

March 1 was a significant day not just for one Airman or for one squadron but for the U.S. Air Force. On that day, “Shelly” Jarvis, 86th Dental Squadron superintendent, pinned on the rank of chief master sergeant — the first to do so in the U.S. Air Force as […]