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Capts. Haley Wilson, 603rd Air Operations Center strategy division officer, left, and Kevin Durr, Warrior Preparation Center program manager, pin their new ranks on each other during their promotion ceremony May 26 on Ramstein. The ceremony was presided over by Lt. Gen. Richard M. Clark, 3rd Air Force commander.

3rd AF CC promotes 13 to captain

Story and photos by Airman 1st Class Joshua Magbanua
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

Thirteen officers were promoted to the rank of captain May 26 on Ramstein in a ceremony presided over by Lt. Gen. Richard M. Clark, 3rd Air Force commander.

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KMC first sergeants mentor CGOs

KMC first sergeants mentor CGOs

Story and photos by Airman 1st Class Joshua Magbanua
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

Company grade officers from around the Kaiserslautern Military Community participated in a professional enhancement seminar on Ramstein. The PES was themed “Building a Better Leader for the Enlisted Force,” and was hosted by the KMC First Sergeant Council. The seminar enhanced the ability of CGOs to be more effective and […]

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Airmen pack their rucks in remembrance

Airmen pack their rucks in remembrance

by Senior Airman Elizabeth Baker
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs
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Features, Health, News

LRMC, Army clinics’ phone wait times increase — Save time, schedule appointments online

LRMC, Army clinics’ phone wait times increase — Save time, schedule appointments online

by Landstuhl Regional Medical Center Public Affairs

Due to a current staffing shortage, the Appointment Line wait times may be longer than normal for patients of Landstuhl Regional Medical Center and the Army Health Clinics at Kleber, Baumholder and Wiesbaden installations. To help save patients time, the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center team is encouraging TRICARE beneficiaries to […]

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Join spouse assignment consideration keeps mil-to-mil couples together

by Kat Bailey
Air Force Personnel Center Public Affairs

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas — Summertime is a busy season for permanent changes of station and military couples may be apprehensive about the possibility of being separated from their spouses during their next assignments. They have little to be concerned about, however, as the Air Force Personnel Center has an accommodation rate of more than 96 percent for mil-to-mil married couples through the assignment of military couples option, commonly known across the Air Force as a “join spouse” assignment.

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French military officials receive a wreath from a U.S. Army representative during a Memorial Day ceremony May 28 on Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial, St. Avold, France. 2017’s ceremony was especially notable, because it marked 100 years since the U.S. entered the First World War.

Ramstein celebrates Memorial Day in France

Story and photos by Airman 1st Class Joshua Magbanua
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

LORRAINE CEMETERY, Saint Avold, France — Military and civilian officials commemorated fallen service members in a solemn Memorial Day ceremony May 28.

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The 721st Air Mobility Operations Group used a C-17 Globemaster III for a mock-hijacking May 23 on the Ramstein flightline, during a Rapid Global Mobility Exercise. The wing aimed to improve the mission readiness of its Airmen through its Rapid Global Mobility Exercise.

721 AMOG exercises airpower

Story and photo by Airman 1st Class Joshua Magbanua
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

The 721st Air Mobility Ope-rations Group concluded a Rapid Global Mobility Exercise May 24 on Ramstein. Air Mobility Command Air-men at Ramstein conducted the training to enhance their mission readiness with AMC Airmen from the U.S. also participating. “This exercise is meant to test how we respond to stressful situations, […]

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KMC Blotter — June 2, 2017

May 22 6:30 a.m.: Major traffic accident with injuries in Landstuhl May 24 1:10 a.m.: Drunken operation of a motor vehicle in Landstuhl May 25 7:28 p.m.: Theft from an unsecured motor vehicle in Kaiserslautern 11:45 p.m.: Drunken operation of a motor vehicle in Mackenbach May 26 3:15 a.m.: Assault […]

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Air Force presents fiscal year 2018 budget

by Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs

WASHINGTON — The Air Force presented its fiscal year 2018 president’s budget request May 23, 2017, following the Defense Department and sister services’ budget briefings.

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521AMOW hosts Key Spouse Appreciation Reception

by Master Sgt. Ian Morris
521st Air Mobility Operations Wing

More than 22 key spouses and key spouse mentors from across the 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing gathered on Ramstein and via video teleconference systems from Italy, England, and Spain for a Key Spouse Appreciation Reception, May 16.

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