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Waltraud Arnold (left) and Ute Spang, Air Force Inns housekeepers, work together to change the sheets in a hotel room. The Air Force Inns housekeepers’ mission is to provide quality facilities and service to lodging guests.

Service goes extra mile at Air Force Inns

Photos by Senior Airman Hailey Haux
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

Air Force Inns has a total of 31 buildings on Ramstein, Vogelweh Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. There are 171 housekeepers assigned to keep the rooms in those buildings clean.

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Airman 1st Class Eric Welsh, 786th Civil Engineer Squadron emergency management journeyman, dons an oxygen mask while preparing for a biological response exercise 
Sept. 26 on Ramstein. Squadrons train quarterly to stay prepared for real-world situations.

Emergency management: Ready to assist, respond

Story and photos by Senior Airman Hailey Haux
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

Airmen from the 786th Civil Engineer Squadron Emergency Management Flight have an important role to play in keeping the KMC safe.

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Staff Sgt. Raymond Rugenstein, 86th Operations Support Squadron weather flight weather 
forecaster, reads a hand-held manual weather sensor.

Predicting the unpredictable

Photos by Senior Airman Jose L. Leon
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

Airmen from the 86th Operations Support Squadron weather flight provide weather forecasts, warnings, watches and conditions for the KMC and worldwide through meteorological and aviation networks.

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Silvano Wueschner, 86th Airlift Wing historian, sifts through books in his office Sept. 25 on Ramstein. Wueschner has been a historian at Ramstein since June 2011. He captures and organizes the history of the base.

86th Airlift Wing historian: Connecting past, present, future

Story and photo by Airman 1st Class Michael Stuart
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

History is the record of past events and is important to the future of a society. History affects what we do on a daily basis. Some may say the lack of knowledge of how and what happened in the past can be the reason history repeats itself.

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SAPR: Stepping in to protect lives

by Dr. Tom Appel-Schumacher
U.S. Air Forces in Europe Sexual Assault Prevention and Response program manager

In the past eight years, U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa averaged 84 reported sexual assaults per year perpetrated against active duty, Guard, Reserve and civilians — men and
women.

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Airman 1st Class Terrelle Green, 86th Logistics Readiness Squadron traffic management technician, packages equipment for outbound shipping Sept. 25 on Ramstein. Green is a member of the Deployment and Distribution Flight, which shipped more than 130,000 packages in the last calendar year.

LRS: Developing force multipliers

Photos by Airman 1st Class Holly Mansfield
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

The 86th Logistics Readiness Squadron houses the Fuels, Deployment and Distribution and Material Maintenance flights.

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Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Stanley Allen, U.S. Army NATO Brigade chaplain, speaks about the importance of spiritual fitness as a key component of the overall Comprehensive Soldier Fitness plan during a breakfast gathering at the Sembach Community Activity Center. Service members and civilians from Sembach tenant units attended the event.

US Army NATO Brigade holds spiritual fitness breakfast

Story and photo by Sgt. 1st Class John S. Wollaston
U.S. Army NATO Public Affairs

Think of Comprehensive Soldier Fitness as a three-legged stool. For a soldier to be at his or her best, all three legs of the stool need to be solid. One weak link and the overall well-being of the Soldier could collapse.

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Cpl. Caitlin Thompson, a reservist with the 450th Military Police Squadron, receiving treatment for injuries sustained while deployed to Kuwait, spends time with Tank, a 2-year-old black Labrador retriever, during a Pets and Warriors visit Sept. 18 at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. The PAW program allows volunteers and their pets to visit wounded warriors and other patients in the hospital to boost their morale.

A warrior’s best friend

Story and photo by Airman 1st Class Holly Mansfield
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

When military members are deployed, they don’t always have the opportunity to have man’s best friend with them during hard times.

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‘I am Air Force Energy’ campaign kicks off

Courtesy of Air Force Civil Engineer Center

October, Energy Action Month, provides an opportunity for Airmen to learn more about the impact of energy to the Air Force’s mission as part of a national campaign led by the Department of Energy.

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Airman 1st Class Thomas Smith, who works as a broadcast journalist with the 86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs Office on Ramstein, has been an Air Force broadcaster since 
March 2011.

Broadcasting: through the lens

Story and photo by Airman 1st Class Michael Stuart
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

Broadcast journalism is a tool used to inform the public on who, what, when, where, why and how the members of the Air Force complete the mission.

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