Year in Review: January and February
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I have the greatest job in the Air Force. I have a front row seat to witness amazing work accomplished daily by the men and women of Team Ramstein, and I’m looking forward to the accomplishments we will achieve together in 2015.
Recently, a U.S. citizen assigned to Ramstein traveled to the U.K. (a non-Schengen country. See below for a list of Schengen countries) and was denied re-entry to Germany because his U.S. passport expired in less than three months.
The Soldiers of the 21st Theater Sustainment Command’s Regional Support Element-United Assistance have been conducting operations in Dakar, Senegal, for over a month. Recently, with the arrival of the element’s main body and the completion of construction operations, the team moved into the Intermediate Staging Area and began conducting daily operations.
Soldiers from the 7th Civil Support Command gathered at the Kaiserslautern Community Activities Center Dec. 6 to welcome the command sergeant major of the Army Reserve.
DEC. 10 7:45 a.m.: A major traffic accident with injuries was reported in Kaiserslautern. 10:30 a.m.: A major traffic accident was reported in Steinwenden. DEC. 11 7:15 a.m.: A breaking and entering was reported in Bruchmühlbach-Miesau. 4:43 p.m.: A major traffic accident with injuries was reported in Landstuhl. 8 p.m.: A runaway juvenile was reported […]
The Ramstein Education Office, Company Grade Officer’s Council and the Base Career Advisers joined forces to provide Airmen with an opportunity to seek commissioning advice during a town hall briefing Dec. 10 at the U.S. Air Forces in Europe Conference Center.
I’ve been to Toyota, Caterpillar, John Deere, Standard Aero, Wal-Mart and many other industries to study their streamlined processes, also known as their lean manufacturing processes, but the one factory I’d love to see as the pinnacle of lean operations is Santa’s workshop in the North Pole.