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  • Last Bolt: Final wrench turns to end an era

    "First bolt," yelled Senior Airman Brad Renninger.The phrase bounced around the hangar as other maintainers from the 352nd Maintenance Squadron echoed the warning. The announcement is standard practice for any crew chief in Airman Renninger's position, who was about to sever the connection between

  • 700th CONS sets records, breaks ground

    It was just after midnight on Oct. 1, and a team from the 700th Contracting Squadron, along with Col. Earl Matthews, 435th Air Base Wing commander, took up shovels and dug into the ground on Rhine Ordnance Barracks. This midnight groundbreaking was a celebration of the passing of a record-breaking

  • New features make CFC donations quick, simple

    The Combined Federal Campaign-Overseas, which is underway now to Nov. 30, offers new features this year to make giving easier. Contributors wishing to donate with a credit card can access the electronic pledge card via the CFC-O Web site, www.cfcoverseas.org, and then click on the "Search & Pledge"

  • Hochspeyer Munitions Storage Area closes

    After more than 50 years of U.S. munitions activity, the final ammo-laden truck leaves Hochspeyer Munitions Storage Area Oct. 12. The 435th Munitions Squadron maintained the geographically separated storage area, the Hochspeyer Munitions Annex, which is about 40 minutes east of Ramstein. The

  • 1st CMXS Dragons scale, gut radar

    Airmen from the 1st Communications Maintenance Squadron scaled and gutted two high-towering weather radars, saving 288 work hours, more than $7,000 in TDY funds and approximately $1 million in contractor removal fees. The radars, located at Sembach and Katterbach, belonged to the 21st Operational

  • AADD saves

    AADD saves - not just one at a time, but countless lives on unnumbered nights. Armed forces Against Drunk Driving started in the KMC in 2003, and is a successful program that potentially saved more than 1,600 lives in 2007 and more than 10,500 lives in total. AADD's goal is to prevent accidents, and

  • Reducing speed gains a valuable second

    Recently, the KMC lost one of its valued Airmen as a result of an automobile crash. While traveling on a rural highway, the Airman lost control on a curve, left the highway and struck a tree. If he hadn't struck the tree, he would have gone down a steep embankment, which might have caused his

  • Lakenheath flightline turned into combat zone for exercise

    More than 1,000 Liberty warriors participated in a local operations evaluation exercise from Oct. 16 to 18. Players in the exercise were evaluated by a team of about 40 people, 14 of which were augmented from Spangdahlem, Germany. The evaluators inspected the 48th Fighter Wing's NATO compliance. "It