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Fall cleanup will take place Tuesday and Wednesday

by Tech. Sgt. Kory Peterson 786th Civil Engineer Squadron

As we approach our fall cleanup, take a moment to reflect on why we work together to accomplish the Base Pride Plan. We dedicate time to clean where we work and clean where we live to make a happier and healthier you.

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Exercise your right to vote responsibly

by Senior Airman Jonathan Bass 86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

The commercials are on during every break in broadcasting. Social media sites are flooded with advertisements and claims from every political source imaginable. Friends, family and even complete strangers argue in the comment sections.

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Hispanic Heritage Month: Embracing, Enabling, Enriching America

According to the official website of the Nobel Prize, Severo Ochoa was born in Spain in 1905. He went to medical school at the University of Madrid and graduated in 1929. In 1941, Ochoa moved to the United States. Ochoa became the first Hispanic American to win the Nobel Prize […]

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Community Corner – Oct. 7, 2016

Airman & Family Readiness Center For more information or to sign up for a class, call the Airman & Family Readiness Center at 480-5100. MONDAY » Columbus Day — No classes TUESDAY » Reintegration briefing: 9 to 10:30 a.m., IDRC » Predeployment briefing: 1 to 3 p.m., IDRC » Ditching the Dorms: 1:30 to […]

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Children from Kaiserslautern and Ramstein schools play an adaptive sports soccer game Sept. 22 on Vogelweh. Fourteen kids from Kaiserslautern and Ramstein schools participated in the soccer game.

KMC Airmen organize adaptive soccer game

Photos by Senior Airman Jimmie D. Pike

Children from Kaiserslautern and Ramstein schools play an adaptive sports soccer game Sept. 22 on Vogelweh. Fourteen kids from Kaiserslautern and Ramstein schools participated in the soccer game.

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ASAP reorganization aims to provide better support

Courtesy of Landstuhl Regional Medical Center Public Affairs

On Oct. 1, The Army Substance Abuse Program began to enhance the effectiveness in treating an increase in substance abuse and substance use disorders.

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Staying proactive about child supervision

Staying proactive about child supervision

by Airman 1st Class Lane T. Plummer 86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

Parents have responsibilities, and when it comes to children, they have to accept full responsibility for the decisions their young make as well as their own.

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Richard Rhodes, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center chief of performance improvement, talks to the group about some of the ways they have used Lean Six Sigma to improve practices at the hospital Sept. 19 at the Ramstein Community Center. Examples include decreasing the wait time at the Emergency Room and standardizing the crash carts around the hospital.

Process improvement experts discuss best practices

Story and photo by Ashley Patoka Regional Health Command Europe Public Affairs

The Armed Forces Europe Lean Six Sigma Community of Practice, a group comprised of performance improvement practitioners from across several commands and services, came together to talk about performance improvement during its first face-to-face meeting Sept. 19 at the Ramstein Community Center.

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October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Courtesy of Family Advocacy Program

During calendar year 2015, there were over seven thousand incidents that met criteria for domestic violence within the Air Force. In U.S. Air Forces in Europe, over seven hundred cases met criteria for domestic violence during that same time period.

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Col. Stephen Hall, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center deputy commander for nursing; Lt. Col. Cynthia Sanchez, LRMC chief nurse for women's health and newborn care; and Col. (Dr.) Claude Burnett, LRMC chief of women's health and newborn care, cut a ribbon to officially open the first lactation support pod in a military facility in Europe Sept. 15 at LRMC. The LSP offers moms a quiet and private place to breastfeed or pump in a convenient location, on LRMC’s 2nd floor above the information desk in the middle of the hospital.

LRMC offers new pod for nursing moms

Courtesy of Landstuhl Regional Medical Center Public Affairs

Landstuhl Regional Medical Center proudly supports breastfeeding and mothers are always welcome to breastfeed anywhere they like.

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