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  • Creek Defender trains SF members for deployment

    Moving from building to building, clearing rooms, securing and detaining opposition forces and covering danger zones, security forces members put into practice what they have learned so far at the Creek Defender Regional Training Center. The goal of the two week-long course, which began May 10 and

  • Air Force, Army train with German sister unit

    Most people who fly in a C-130 crew know they are not on the fast-track to become celebrities. But in the skies surrounding Wunsdorf Air Base, Germany, two Ramstein aircrews discovered just what their missing piece to stardom was - a German pilot on board, operating their radios. "Because we had the

  • Senior U.S. military officer in U.K. passes torch

    The senior United States military officer in the United Kingdom, Maj. Gen. Jack B. Egginton, handed over the reins to Maj. Gen. Mark R. Zamzow here Friday, May 15. General Egginton has served as the 3rd Air Force vice commander, which is headquartered at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, since October

  • Air Forces Africa supports U.S.-Moroccan exercise

    Seventeenth Air Force's Airmen and aircraft recently played a key role in the bilateral U.S.-Moroccan exercise African Lion. The ongoing exercise, which runs through June 4, includes a variety of military training events and features humanitarian civic assistance activities across five different

  • Musical ambassadors return to USAFE

    Airmen of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe Band have returned here after performing 19 public outreach concerts for over 8,000 people in six Eastern European countries. The Direct Hit popular music combo brought the sounds of rhythm and blues, soul and today's pop to audiences in Moldova and Bulgaria.

  • CONTRACT AWARDED FOR KMCC SPORTS LOUNGE

     A recently awarded contract grants a local business owner control and management rights to the sports lounge area of the Kaiserslautern Military Community Center here. The contract, awarded April 27, provides Ramstein village based concessionaire Andreas Hausmann the opportunity to hire staff,

  • Ramstein paralegal named best in Air Force

    Master Sgt. Kristen Orcutt, 435th Air Base Wing Legal office, noncommissioned officer in charge for legal operations was recently selected as the Yates-Popwell Award winner for 2008. The Karen Yates-Popwell Award is an Air Force level award that recognizes the active-duty senior noncommissioned

  • Ramstein selects new SNCOs

    Supervisors and subordinates came together at the Ramstein Officers Club to celebrate the promotion of their co-workers to master sergeant May 15. Ramstein took 301 of the 5,604 line numbers the Air Force used to promote 24.62 percent of the 22,748 eligible technical sergeants. The promotion list