Post Tagged with: "U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz"

Sports

Adel Ismail offers indoor tennis instruction at the Rhine Ordnance Barracks special events center as part of SKIESUnlimited, a Child, Youth & School Services program at U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz.

Army offers children indoor sports classes

Story and photo by Rick Scavetta
U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz

Cold rain fell outside the Rhine Ordnance Barracks special events center one recent evening, as Sgt. 1st Class Steve Alombro and his wife, Sheryll, brought their son to tennis class.

December 12, 2013 ×

News

Courtesy photoGloria Gaynor serves supper to a Soldier during her visit to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center two years ago. Gaynor made a promise to return. She will sing and tell stories this Christmas at LRMC’s Heaton Hall.

Gloria Gaynor to visit KMC

by Yanir Hill
U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz

In 1978, after a delicate surgery for a severe spine injury, Gloria Gaynor entered a recording studio and belted out the lyrics to a song destined to become an anthem of survival, resiliency and empowerment.

December 12, 2013 ×

News

Photo by Rick ScavettaSgt. 1st Class Isaac Lewis, a 21st Theater Sustainment Command NCO, and his children, Scarlett, 11 months, and Abram, 5, look for his wife, Christina, on the Operation Rising Star website. Christina Lewis was U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz’s finalist for the annual singing competition.

Army spouse represents garrison at Operation Rising Star

by Rick Scavetta
U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz

Sgt. 1st Class Isaac Lewis is used to hearing his wife, Christina, singing at home and at karaoke. Listening to her sing online this week, as the U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz finalist at Operation Rising Star, was something entirely new.

December 12, 2013 ×

Features

Local Soldier shows battalion Pueblo culture

Local Soldier shows battalion Pueblo culture

Photos by Rick Scavetta

During a recent event at U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz’s Kleber Kaserne, Capt. Phillip Castillo, 41, a Native American from the Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico, shared his culture with fellow Soldiers.

December 5, 2013 ×

Features

Oberstabsfeldwebel Roland Christmann (right), a senior NCO from a local German reserve organization, pins a commendation medal on Lt. Col. George Brown, U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz’s emergency services director.

Local German reserve organization recognizes emergency services director

Story and photo by Rick Scavetta
U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz

Encouraged by a growing relationship with U.S. forces at U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz, German reserve troops recently honored Lt. Col. George Brown, the garrison’s emergency services director.

December 5, 2013 ×

News

Lt. Col. George Brown, U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz’s emergency services director, briefs visiting German military police soldiers at the garrison’s new fire alarm control center at Rhine Ordnance Barracks.

German, US military police share ideas

Story and photo by Ina Franzreb
U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz

Capt. Daniel McCarey is posted to Germany, yet rarely sees fellow American Soldiers.

December 5, 2013 ×

News

Photo by Rick ScavettaLt. Col. George Brown (right), U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz’s director of emergency services, and Andreas Grawert, the garrison’s deputy fire chief, pay their respects to fallen German soldiers during a Nov. 17 ceremony in Otterbach for “Volkstrauertag,” the people’s day of mourning. Garrison Commander Col. Bryan DeCoster took part in a wreath laying at the cemetery in Kaiserslautern, while Command Sgt. Maj. Kenneth Kraus, the garrison’s senior enlisted leader, took part in a ceremony in Germersheim. The public holiday in Germany commemorates all those who died in armed conflicts.

Paying respect on Day of Mourning

November 21, 2013 ×

News

Col. Bryan DeCoster, U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz commander, speaks of the unit’s increased role in supporting dozens of Army posts from Pirmasens and Miesau to Baumholder and Germersheim.

Opening a new chapter: U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz

Story and photo by Rick Scavetta
U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz

The Army closed a chapter in its history Sept. 26 at Kleber Kaserne, furling colors of two Army garrisons and opening one anew — U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz.

October 3, 2013 ×
Rates provided courtesy Community Bank