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When people think of the Air Force, they often think of gigantic cargo planes carrying tanks by air into war zones and supersonic jets soaring through the vast blue sky.

Chief Master Sgt. Aaron D. Bennett, 86th Airlift Wing command chief, spoke to members of the Kaiserslautern Military Community 5/6 association during their general membership meeting Sept. 1 on Ramstein.

Jet engines start with a deafening roar, warming the tarmac while they await takeoff into clear blue skies.

WALLERFANGEN, Germany — Ascending into the unknown, Airmen look out the windows of a tiny propeller aircraft. The structures on the ground get smaller, and the sound of the plane is the only noise inside the small ‘seatless’ cabin.

When I arrived at Ramstein, I asked myself and I have been asked a number of times by others since, “Why a pink flamingo?” What does a pink flamingo have to do with the 435th Air Ground Operations Wing and the 435th Air Expeditionary Wing?

The Ramstein Enlisted Spouses’ Association and Airman and Family Readiness Center hosted a party for family members of deployed Airmen Aug. 12 at Ramstein Air Base, Germany.