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  • Lost cat shows how military 'family' works together

    Staff Sgt. Tina Hernandez knows first hand what it's like to be supported by the U.S. Air Force "family." She wasn't late on a bill or stranded anywhere. Well, she wasn't stranded, but her cat was. Through a long chain of events and help by a then-faceless kind-hearted couple, as well as a

  • Teamwork in action

    Ramstein's Joint Mobility Processing Center exemplifies teamwork in action at the passenger terminal. The JMPC serves as the hub for deployment operations originating or terminating at Ramstein. The JMPC processes deploying passengers and cargo, ensuring everybody and everything deploying from, or

  • 100th LRS Fuels Management Flight keeps RAF Mildenhall lifeblood pumping

    The average human heart pumps about 250,000 gallons of blood a year to nourish every cell of the body, without which the body would not function. Similarly, fuels management Airmen keep the lifeblood of RAF Mildenhall - JP-8 - pumping through thousands of feet of underground pipeline "arteries," but

  • Deployed Airmen prepare pilots, aircrews to fly, fight, win

    How often do you put your life in the hands of someone else? Pilots and aircrew members do it every time they fly. It's all a matter of trust, said Capt. Anthony Campbell, a C-130 Hercules aircraft commander deployed with the 737th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, who described flying a

  • Pet owners must follow German rules

    What happens to Scruffy and Fido when their owner deploys or moves back to the U.S.? Unfortunately, some KMC pet owners have chosen to abandon their pets. Under the German Animal Protection Law, pet owners can be fined for taking this action. Pet owners should try to find somebody who wants to take

  • NATO police protect 600 people, $800M facility

    Once you gain access to Ramstein Air Base, you still have several layers of security to pass when entering the NATO Allied Air Component Command Headquarters building located off the traffic circle on the north side of the base. The ultra modern five-story facility, valued at $80 million, is

  • After 33 years, roots

    Two phone calls, two people, two completely different outcomes. Staff Sgt. Timothy Westerlund, Ramstein Area Defense Counsel paralegal, said he expected it. His attempt to reach through language, countries, and time, (more than 30 years) led him here, to Germany, to find his German biological

  • Carter G. Woodson and African American/Black History Month

    "If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated" - Carter G. Woodson. February is African American/Black History Month. As with all observances, this month is designated not to

  • Keep OPSEC in mind, even online

    In today's highly technological world, the fast-paced sharing of information can be considered friend or foe to those in the Air Force. There are several public Web sites which offer individuals free membership to create personalized Web pages. Two of the most popular social-networking sites are

  • 435th MUNS Airmen net different kind of fishing trip

    The second day of their fishing trip was unlike the first. Up to their chest in mud, Airmen from the 435th Munitions Squadron were still catching fish, albeit with bare hands in sucking mud, in an attempt to save hundreds of them from suffocating in the muck. "Time was of the essence, fish were