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Shift Happens: adapt, overcome

by Maj. Ryan Anderson
86th Materiel Maintenance Squadron commander

Military life pushes us and our families toward all sorts of great opportunities, but sometimes these sudden shifts are unwelcome, unwanted and completely unexpected.

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Tool to safeguard PII scheduled for AF-wide December rollout

Information courtesy of 24th Air Force Public Affairs

The Digital Signature Enforcement Tool is scheduled for Air Force-wide integration Dec. 5, providing Microsoft Outlook email users with an interactive, automated virtual assistant to help ensure the security of personally identifiable information.

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John Mace, 86th Medical Group special operations medical officer, holds a handful of coins he has collected throughout his 54 years in the military Dec. 8 on Ramstein. Mace is scheduled to retire today after spending 25 years in active duty and 29 more in civil service.

Chapter closes after 54-year journey

Story and photo by Senior Airman Jonathan Stefanko
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

Finally reaching the end of his career, the exhausted medical officer cleared his office, starting with the photos he collected throughout the years. Each picture frame was carefully lifted off the once decorated wall. He held each frame firmly in his aging hand and ran a finger along its smooth edges, not to wipe the accumulation of dry, insignificant dust that had collected over the years, but to recall a 54-year journey that has engrained itself within the relic.

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Commissary Value Brand returns for more savings

Commissary Value Brand returns for more savings

by Kevin L. Robinson
Defense Commissary Agency Public Affairs

FORT LEE, Va. — In response to growing patron demand for products comparable to the low-cost private label items sold in civilian stores, the Defense Commissary Agency is re-energizing an “old friend” known as Commissary Value Brand. Starting in December, commissaries worldwide will highlight about 300 Value Brand products in […]

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Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Matthew ChlostaCol. Kevin M. Sanders, 7th Civil Support Command deputy commanding officer, and Command Sgt. Maj. Raymond Brown, 361st Civil Affairs Brigade, 7th CSC, senior enlisted adviser, attend the German World War I National Day of Mourning wreath laying ceremony Nov. 16 at World War I memorial sites in Spicheren, France, near the city of Saarbrücken to commemorate those who died during the war.

Soldiers attend World War I Memorial Day ceremony

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Meter reading happening now

Courtesy of Stadtwerke Ramstein-Miesenbach

Employees of Stadtwerke Ramstein-Miesenbach (city works) will start reading the electricity, gas and water meters now.
If customers are not available during normal working times, readers will also come early in the evening or on weekends.

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Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Matthew ChlostaStaff Sgt. Carlos Guardardo, Panzer Kaserne installation coordinator from the 21st Special Troops Battalion, 21st Theater Sustainment Command, plays a hand drum in accompaniment with 
Kevin Morris, an education technologist at Kaiserslautern Middle School, who plays a musical piece on a Native American style flute during the Native American Heritage Month celebration event Nov. 21 at the Kaiserslautern Community Activities Center.

21st TSC, 7th CSC Soldiers, civilians celebrate Native American Heritage Month

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From left, Sgt. 1st Class Carlos Diaz, communications NCOIC, 457th Civil Affairs Battalion, 361st Civil Affairs Brigade, 7th Civil Support Command; German air force Senior Master Sgt. Jochen Werner, German military senior enlisted liaison with the 21st Theater Sustainment Command; German Lt. Col. Thies Neelsen, German Army Logistic Command liaison officer at the 21st TSC; and Staff Sgt. Walter Egan, motor sergeant, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 361st Civil Affairs Brigade listen to German army Lt. Col. Lars Kleine, commanding officer of the foreign language training section at the German Artillery School during a tour of the German Army artillery museum Nov. 14.

7th CSC Soldiers tour German artillery school, museum

Story and photos by Sgt. 1st Class Matthew Chlosta
7th Civil Support Command Public Affairs

Five Army Reserve Soldiers from the 7th Civil Support Command visited the German Army Artillery School and Museum Nov. 14 during an information exchange event.

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Brig. Gen. Patrick X. Mordente, 86th Airlift Wing commander, serves turkey to KMC members on Thanksgiving Day at the Rheinland Inn Dining Facility. Mordente and several other leaders 
volunteered to help serve a Thanksgiving meal for KMC Airmen and their families.

86th AW leaders give thanks to Airmen

Photos by Staff Sgt. Kris Levasseur

     

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Blotter

KMC Blotter – Dec. 5, 2014

NOV. 18 8:46 a.m.: A major traffic accident with injuries was reported in Mittelbrunn. NOV. 19 8:20 a.m.: A major traffic accident was reported in Frankfurt. NOV. 20 8:09 a.m.: Fleeing the scene of a minor traffic accident was reported on Ramstein. NOV. 21 2:30 a.m.: An attempted robbery resulting in an assault was […]

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