News for the Ramstein, Kaiserslautern, Landstuhl & Baumholder military communities in Germany 
***image1***Issue: I’m writing to you concerning the problem of drivers leaving their cars running. As we know from the driver’s examination, to leave a car running is against German law. I have spoken with those I see doing this and reminded them of that fact. Usually the response is, “I was only […]
The 86th Maintenance Group announced the winner of its 6S competition at the Maintenance Professional of the Year banquet Saturday.
Each year since its establishment in 1957 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Americans have celebrated the first of May as Law Day. It is a day to reflect on our great heritage of liberty, justice and democracy.
National Nurses Week recognizes the impact nurses and medical technicians make to the lives and health of their patients. It is May 6 to 12 each year as a commemoration to Florence Nightingale, whose birthday is May 12. She was the founder of professional nursing and it was her performance as a nurse 150 years ago during the Crimean War that forever altered professional nursing. The changes she implemented in the care of the wounded in the spring of 1854 reduced the mortality rate from 42 to 2 percent. That pattern of excellent care continues today in military healthcare.
In conjunction with the 431st Air Base Group standing up, the 435th Air Base Wing was reorganized Wednesday.
Jessica Simpson, Nick Lachey film variety show at Ramstein, Landstuhl hospital
***image1***Brig. Gen. Rosanne Bailey, 435th Air Base Wing and KMC commander, recognized Staff Sgt. Ian Black, 700th Contracting Squadron, and his wife, Tanya, for their efforts to raise the morale of wounded troops at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center and those at Kleber Kaserne. The couple bought troops sub sandwiches and […]
***image1***Airman 1st Class Arthur Finzen III, 435th Logistics Readiness Squadron fuel distribution pumper, prepares an R-11 fuel truck to pump fuel. Airman Finzen pumped 1,000,000 gallons of fuel to aircraft on Ramstein in March. He is only the second person to accomplish that feat at Ramstein on eight-hour shifts.
The U.S. Air Forces in Europe Operational Weather Squadron recently earned the 2004 Fawbush Miller Award for Outstanding Weather Squadron.
The Air Force-level Fawbush Miller Award is decided through packages submitted from the eight operational weather squadrons around the world.
The squadron here, which also won three 2004 USAFE awards, took the Fawbush award for the first time since 1999.
Ricardo Quinones, an Army civilian at the 21st Theater Support Command, recently received the Outstanding COMSEC Custodian of 2004 for outside continental United States
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