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  • I am a marine

    Staff Sgt. Ben A. Coleman is a Marine liaison at the 435th Medical Group Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility. He greets all injured Marines, coming from downrange, arriving at Ramstein. His job is to keep the Marines family and unit updated about all the steps of the Marine's progress through

  • Big Fish, Little Fish: C-5 Galaxy gets filled to the gills with helicopters

    It was like a scene on the Discovery Channel; one of those underwater programs where a rather large fish swallows a smaller fish whole, all in the name of survival. A team of 10 airmen from the 352nd Maintenance Squadron loaded two, recently-retired, MH-53M Pave Low IV helicopters onto a C-5 Galaxy

  • US Joint Color Guard Opens 1st Regular Season NFL Game in London

    For U.S. Marine Corporal Ryan P. Hall, it was a challenge not much different from other color guard presentations he has performed. "We've done color guard duties in the rain, so that was nothing new either," said the Marine who has been serving on color guards for ten years since his high school

  • BHS hosts successful Walk for the Cure event

    Bitburg High School recently celebrated Breast Cancer Awareness Month in grand fashion, raising nearly $4,500 for breast cancer research Oct. 25. The goal of the project was to increase student awareness about breast cancer because one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. Inspired by

  • Spangdahlem pilot awarded Mackay Trophy

    Capt. Scott Markle received the Clarence Mackay Trophy during a ceremony here Oct. 29 for his actions while deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom last year. Captain Markle, an A-10 Thunderbolt II pilot from the 81st Fighter Squadron, Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, directly engaged a

  • Warriors for a day

    More than 200 children received their official tasking and prepared for a mock deployment Oct. 24 at Hangar 1. The day-long deployment began with the young warriors in-processing and picking up their Air Expeditionary Force cards, helmets and web belts. Immediately after suiting up, they formed up

  • Dont even think about mailing meat

    Many U.S. personnel in Europe have received a $100 fine from the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection because they mailed packages of wurst, ham or pâté to America. And, the infestations of animal disease have cost the U.S. taxpayers millions of dollars each year. It is illegal to import red

  • Ramstein Airmen join team in Iraq

    Six takeoffs. Six landings. Twelve hours. All in a day's work for aircrew members of the 737th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron taking on the mission known as the "pain train." "It's called the pain train because there's just 30 minutes between each stop," said Capt. Robin Cadow, 737 EAS pilot. "At

  • Mobile tower provides home-station training

    Training is how the Air Force gets the mission done, and it is how it takes a 22-person team and turns them into professional combat maintenance technicians. The 1st Combat Communications Squadron's Airfield Systems Flight deploys at a moment's notice to set up bare base air traffic control and

  • Father pins Distinguished Flying Cross on son

    A pilot from the 510th Fighter Squadron was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross here Oct. 29 for his aerial combat support of friendly forces in the vicinity of An Najaf, Iraq, while supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. After returning from a local training mission over the Dolomite Mountains,