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According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Germany leads the world in recycling, peaking at 70 percent waste being recycled and reused in recent years. To put that into perspective, the U.S. only recovers about 33 percent annually. Recycling is a new habit which some American citizens have a difficult […]

On Sep. 30, 1949, U. S. Air Forces in Europe made its final flight to support the Berlin Airlift. Seen through a contemporary lens 75 years later, that mission laid the groundwork for all airlift-driven humanitarian missions to come — and left behind a legacy all Airmen still strive to […]

The newly activated 809th Multi-Role Bridge Company conducted their first bilateral river crossing on the Danube River near Ingolstadt with the Bundeswehr (German Army) on Sep. 25. More than 100 U.S. Army Soldiers gathered on the riverbanks of the Danube, which historically acted as the natural boundary for the Roman […]

According to historians, several key factors, including inclement weather and ill-placed drop zones, threatened the Allied forces’ success during the 1944 Operation Market Garden Airborne mission to re-take control of Nazi-controlled Netherlands. Eighty years later, when Chief Warrant Officer 2 Dustin Colwell, the support operations and transportation senior airdrop systems […]

Sgt. Daniel Beltran, a bridge crewmember crew chief assigned to the 809th Multi-Role Bridge Company, recently saved a woman from drowning in the Danube River in Ingolstadt, Germany.

U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz, along with the U.S. Army Europe and Africa Band & Chorus delighted nearly 500 local (non-U.S.) citizens at the Fruchthalle (German concert hall) Oct. 3 to celebrate the long-standing German American partnership between the U.S. Army, the city of Kaiserslautern, the county and the State of […]