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BUCHAREST, Romania — Soldiers from the U.S. Army Garrison Black Sea and the 1st Cavalry Division stepped into the heart of Romanian history during a visit to the National History Museum in Bucharest on Friday, Jan. 24. The trip coincided with the celebration of Romania’s Principalities Union Day, providing a […]

A nationwide shortage of physicians in rural areas spurred a World War II nurse to work with a pediatrician and create the nurse practitioner program in 1965. Loretta Ford, a native of the Bronx, New York City, earned her nursing diploma in 1941 and was working at Middlesex General Hospital […]

U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz’s Department of Fire and Emergency Services was selected at the Installation Management Command-Europe level as the winners of the Best Large Fire Department for 2024 at the IMCOM-E level. The Fire and Emergency Services Awards honor outstanding achievements by fire departments, fire officers, and firefighters. In […]

The 86th Operations Group celebrated their 83rd birthday on February 10. Activated in 1942, the group began as a bombardment group in World War II.

During the height of World War II, more than 900 service members, civilians and crew aboard the U.S. Army Transport Dorchester sailed through the North Atlantic for Greenland. When the ship departed St. John’s, Newfoundland, Jan. 29, 1943, everyone on board knew there was a risk of being torpedoed and […]

When America’s favorite groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, emerged from his cozy burrow at Gobbler’s Knob, Feb. 2, he saw his shadow, and according to legend, that means we’re in for six more weeks of winter. Many Americans associate Groundhog Day with the clairvoyant rodent — or the 1993 comedy film that […]

Karneval, Fastnacht, Fasching Eleven is the magic number when it comes to Karneval, also known as Fasching or Fastnacht. The eleventh day of the eleventh month, the eleventh hour and eleventh minute of the year mark the beginning of the “fifth season” as Germans and fans of the colorful and […]