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After a successful premier in 2015, Nanstein Castle in Landstuhl will be, for the second time, the stage for castle event days today through Sunday. Organizers want to present the concept of a living castle this year.  The official opening of the medieval market will be at 6 p.m. today. […]

Airman & Family Readiness Center  MONDAY Transition GPS Workshop: 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., A&FRC Ramstein Spouses Orientation: 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., A&FRC Key Spouse Initial Training-Part 1 of 2: 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., A&FRC TUESDAY » Transition GPS Workshop: 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., A&FRC » Reintegration Briefing: 9 […]

Airmen from the 1st Combat Communications Squadron along with 37th Airlift Squadron Airmen pack like pros to load a deployable navigational aid onto a C-130 April 15 on Ramstein.

“It’s not an everyday piece of equipment,” said Staff Sgt. Cory Martin, 1 CCS airfield systems supervisor. “The equipment barely fits into the C-130 so we have to work hand in hand a lot with the 37 AS to train regularly just because they don’t see that a lot.

The 86th Airlift Wing generates and employs air mobility and operates key Air Force power projection platforms. Less commonly known is that Team Ramstein also operates a power projection platform in cyberspace. You can’t see it, but Ramstein hosts a “third runway” where cyberspace operations occur daily over terrestrial and satellite communications links. This third runway is called the Air Force Information Network, or AFIN.

Tackling how to normalize and strengthen resiliency for Airmen who never leave the battlefield because they may be involved in operations during the day and go home to see their daughter’s ballet recital is a striking paradigm. Deployed-in-place Airmen working in the intelligence community encounter these unique stressors that demand […]

Staff Sgt. Martha Otto’s excitement began to soar as a helicopter landed at Kakuma refugee camp in North-west Kenya, November 2000. The former South Sudanese refugee and recent 86th Logistics Readiness Squadron training manager survived gruesome attacks caused by Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army, and waited anxiously for her and […]