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Summer Surge: Getting meds, supplements through mail illegal

Summer Surge: Getting meds, supplements through mail illegal

Permanent Change of Station season is upon us and United States Army Europe-Africa customs inspectors remind personnel of the differences in what they can, and cannot, receive in their military postal box while overseas. According to a U.S. Customs pamphlet, German customs law prohibits the receipt and shipment of certain […]

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Air Force rewrites basic doctrine, focuses on mission command, airpower evolution

Air Force rewrites basic doctrine, focuses on mission command, airpower evolution

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. recently signed perhaps the most sweeping change of Air Force basic doctrine in the service’s history, marking a major milestone in the service’s strategic approach to “Accelerate Change or Lose.” Core themes to the revised Air Force Doctrine Publication-1: The […]

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KMC Blotter: April 30, 2021

April 19 7:55 a.m.: Theft in Weilerbach 11:05 a.m.: Theft in Ramstein-Miesenbach 5:25 p.m.: Theft in Ramstein-Miesenbach 5:48 p.m.: Theft in Ramstein-Miesenbach April 20 8:40 a.m.: Theft on Vogelweh Family Housing 10:39 a.m.: Theft in Vogelweh Family Housing April 21 9:25 a.m.: Major traffic collision in Romberg 1:50 p.m.: Article […]

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Strict limitations on medications imported into Germany

Strict limitations on medications imported into Germany

Transporting certain types of prescription or over-the-counter medications in your luggage or hand carried bags when traveling through a German Airport or Border Control Point can pose a problem, especially if the medication is not properly prescribed, labeled, and documented in accordance with German law. “Whenever German Customs finds prescription […]

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Rated Preparatory Program now accepting applications for FY21 Fall class

Rated Preparatory Program now accepting applications for FY21 Fall class

Active duty Air Force officers and enlisted personnel interested in becoming rated officers have until May 25 to apply for the Fall 2021 Rated Preparatory Program. As the program continues to expand, the fall class will partner and train with the Civil Air Patrol wing in Columbus, Indiana. “We recently […]

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April 12 5:10 a.m.: Major traffic collision near Huetschenhausen 9:12 a.m.: Theft in Rodenbach 12:02 p.m.: Theft in Rodenbach 3:40 p.m.: Theft in Landstuhl April 13 9:54 a.m.: Major traffic collision in Landstuhl April 14 2:55 a.m.: Seized USAREUR license plates in Kusel 9 a.m.: Seized USAREUR license plates on […]

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521 AMOW awarded “Best in the Air Force” Commander’s Inspection Program

521 AMOW awarded “Best in the Air Force” Commander’s Inspection Program

The 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing Inspector General team won the Department of the Air Force 2020 Maj. Gen. Junius W. Jones Inspector General Award. The award recognizes the Air Force’s most outstanding Commander’s Inspection Program, whose performance is proactive and goes above and beyond day-to-day mission requirements. The 521st […]

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Allied, partners practice air policing scenarios over Baltic Sea

Allied, partners practice air policing scenarios over Baltic Sea

Exercise Ramstein Alloy 21-1 is aimed to sharpen and hone skills used in Baltic Air Policing (BAP) efforts. This iteration will include Italy, Germany, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and partners including Finland and Sweden. The exercise will cover two days of training practicing real-world scenarios faced by personnel deployed in […]

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Belgium, NATO founding member, conducting air policing since 1961

Belgium, NATO founding member, conducting air policing since 1961

Belgium is a founding member of NATO and its air force was among the first Allies to start collective Air Policing efforts in Europe 60 years ago. Starting in 1961, Belgium flew the CF-100 Canuck in the air defense role out of Beauvechain Air Base, Belgium, with the 349 and […]

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U.S. Air Force Statement Motto Graphic. (U.S. Air Force Graphic by Rosario "Charo" Gutierrez)

Air Force unveils new mission statement

The Air Force released its new mission statement: To fly, fight, and win… airpower anytime, anywhere.

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