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“I felt like I was in an improv acting class and the teacher just said, ‘OK, today we’re acting out extreme shock. You have cancer … go,’” said Staff Sgt. Kristofer Sirks, 86th Communications Squadron systems control shift supervisor. While deployed to Afghanistan in October 2011, Sirks found out he […]

Sometimes an unexpected increase in the need for blood and blood
products, causes the Armed Services Blood Bank Center-Europe in
Landstuhl to find sponsors to help with short-notice blood drives. But a
recent blood drive was much different.

The very mention of July conjures up images of family picnics, fireworks
and community celebrations to honor the Declaration of Independence on
July 4, 1776. Yet, for the 86th Airlift Wing, the month also holds
significance.

Throughout the remainder of this fiscal year, Sembach Kaserne will
become the new workplace for hundreds of Soldiers and civilians,
including the headquarters of the Installation Management
Command-Europe, the U.S. Army Europe Band and the 30th Medical Command,
among others.

“On the 28th of August 1749, as the midday bell struck twelve, I was born into Frankfurt by the Main. The stars were favourable …” This is how Johann Wolfgang von Goethe describes his own birth in the book “Poetry and Truth.” The greatest German poet experienced the hustle and […]