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If a sexual assault happens, it is crucial for individuals to know who they can turn to, where they can go and what help is available to them.

April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. The month focuses on ensuring Airmen and families are aware of the resources available to aid in the prevention of sexual assault and the different types of reporting procedures available.

Ramstein youth had extra pep in their step as they stomped into the boots of their Airmen and Soldier parents during Operation Jaguar, a mock pre-deployment line held on the 435th Construction and Training Squadron’s silver flag compound March 27 on Ramstein

A visit to the Eagle’s Nest in Southern Germany offers visitors a trip back into World War II history.
 The mountain-top retreat, known to Germans as the “Kehlsteinhaus,” is a lodge that sits atop the Kehlstein Mountain near the city of Berchtesgaden in the German state of Bavaria.

Though the majority of German-American relations takes place in the KMC, the German-American Institute is not located here. Instead, it can be found in the city of Saarbrücken.
Some may wonder why an institute revolving around German and American relationships is located 40 minutes away from the air base that brought the Americans to the area. But it wasn’t always this way.

Parenting decisions can be big (when to start toilet training) or small (should he get another cookie?). No doubt about it, some decisions are easy and some are very tough.
Parents make thousands of decisions about the daily lives of their children. In how many activities should children be enrolled? How do you handle temper tantrums? Food refusal? Where does our child sleep? Often, parents agree on these decisions, and other times they do not. Co-parenting is the term used to describe the negotiation process and team execution of:

I work out in the mornings, eyes popping open like newly christened jam jars. My routine involves driving to the gym in the dark, hyping up on coffee, pinpointing goals of how far I am going to run, bike or row that day and what pace I would permit myself to take.
Everything is neatly planned out in my brain.

Festival lovers don’t have to wait until fall for Oktoberfest, the Bad Dürkheim Wurstmarkt and for other festivals to come around — the 77th Stuttgarter Frühlingsfest, or Stuttgart Spring Festival, takes place April 18 to May 10 at the Cannstatter Wasen.
At Europe’s largest spring festival, there will be 3.5 kilometers of rides, beer tents, food and beverage stalls, entertainment and good times. Fun is guaranteed.