News for the Ramstein, Kaiserslautern, Landstuhl & Baumholder military communities in Germany 
Once upon a time, the inspector general approached inspections as the mode to identify and eliminate problems. Today, the IG has been redesigned with a more efficient way to accomplish the same goals while ensuring readiness is maintained.
Lt. Gen. Eric Chimese, Zambian air force commander, along with a team of senior-military officials, visited U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa headquarters, giving them a chance to further military relations and improve the partnership between the U.S. and Zambian air forces.
Gen. Dennis L. Via, commanding general of U.S. Army Materiel Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., visited 21st Theater Sustainment Command Soldiers April 30 through May 4.
Service members from around Installation Management Command-Europe put their warrior skills to the test April 15 to 18 in Baumholder.
“April 21 through 27 is Volunteer Appreciation Week, and we wanted to show volunteers on the installation how much we appreciate the work that they do,” Forrest said.
It is not every day a service member walks into the dining facility while in the field to see the company commander and first sergeant dressed in aprons serving dinner and washing dishes.
Ten Soldiers from the 21st Theater Sustainment Command’s 18th Engineer Brigade, 54th Engineer Battalion, 15th Engineer Battalion, and 243rd Construction Management Team competed for the title of the brigade’s Best Warrior.
The 903rd Contingency Contracting Battalion of the 409th Contracting Support Brigade assembled its teams for a field training exercise in late March to analyze and discuss tactical procedures used to support expeditionary and contingency environments.
Many people in recent years, upon hearing of deployed service members, likely thought of operations in Afghanistan or Iraq. The reality is that U.S. forces serve in many places around the world, and service members from the Kaiserslautern-based 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command now carry that deployed standard in Turkey.
As the season changes, Department of Defense personnel living in the KMC must remain alert and aware. Your practices for good operations security at home should be the same as those in your workplace.
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