News for the Ramstein, Kaiserslautern, Landstuhl & Baumholder military communities in Germany 
On a balmy June day, blue skies above Baumholder Army Airfield, Germany, contrasted with the 519th Hospital Center/512th Field Hospital’s dark green tents. Planted in the pastoral landscape, the complex was a second home to many of the 400 troops who had prepared for months and trained onsite for weeks […]
Thanks to the entire community for the collective prevention measures. We continue to do well in preventing the spread of COVID. Germany has vaccinated more than 40% of its population, and we have seen a great decrease in the overall incidence rate. The country overall is now 24 cases per […]
Public health officials in Europe are concerned about a recent trend of service members who have taken a controlled substance prescription more than six months after it was prescribed, resulting in a positive urinalysis, and something that could be subject to disciplinary action. “Department of Defense Instruction 1010.16, published in […]
Is your child graduating from college this year? Or, are they a recent graduate? This is typically a time of transitions, whether to a new job, home, or city. It’s also a time for many new graduates to transition to their own independent health care coverage. If your child is […]
As much of Europe is in the midst of distributing the COVID-19 vaccine, asymptomatic testing of individuals continues to play a key role in reducing the spread of the virus. May marks the one-year anniversary of Public Health Command Europe’s Laboratory Sciences division standing up a laboratory section for COVID-19 […]
Lots of great news this week! First on the numbers front: Germany has seen a continual decrease over the last week or so in its case counts, and it’s currently at just under 80 per 100,000. Kaiserslautern followed the wave of increasing cases but is now on the downtrend as […]
The 30th Med Brigade, 21st Theater Sustainment Command, administered the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccination to about 2,000 local national U.S. Army direct hires this week and last at Rhine Ordnance Barracks in Kaiserslautern. Most of the vaccine recipients were attached to 21st TSC, but German national employees from AAFES, […]
When the average person hears “Armed Services Blood Program,” they likely think first about the men and women serving the U.S. military, both at home and overseas. While more than 1.5 million units of blood have been used to treat battlefield illnesses and injuries since its inception, the ASBP also […]
The Department of Defense has celebrated the Month of the Military Child every April since 1986 to highlight the resilience and resourcefulness of military kids in the face of significant stressors. In the spirit of the month, the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences hosted a virtual “Military Child […]
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