Features

The Joint NATO Command Branch is located in Stuttgart-Vaihingen as part
of the 431st Air Base Group. The branch is comprised of one officer and
six enlisted personnel. Its mission is to maintain superior MAJCOM
personnel support to the Air Force members serving the NATO mission.

Tick season is here again and the tick population in the KMC may be
large this year because of the mild winter and plentiful rain.

The International Day of Museums is observed Sunday. The union
community of Winnweiler has several museums with an emphasis on the
history of the region, craftsmanship, culture and early settlement.

The early 1930s, when war clouds were beginning to gather on the
horizon in Europe and Asia, saw the development of some of the worst
ideas in military aviation history.

Sunday and Monday, Germans observe

Besides observing Pentecost on Sunday, Mother

By 1916, the third year of World War I, the military aircraft was firmly established as a weapon and German and British aircraft were regularly used for strafing and low-level bombing. But the hundreds of machine guns in the trenches caused heavy losses to the fragile biplanes on both sides; the British tended to ignore the losses, but the Germans began to develop an aircraft strictly for ground attack.