• Ramstein Airmen support presidential visit to Africa

    Team Ramstein provided support for the visit of President George W. Bush to Africa Feb. 15 to 21. U. S. Air Forces in Europe, 3rd Air Force, the 435th Air Base Wing and the 86th Airlift Wing deployed servicemembers and equipment to assist Joint Task Force-Nomad Fire in Benin, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana

  • 435th MDG participates in National Patient Safety Awareness Week

    The 435th Medical Group is joining other leading health care organizations around the globe in celebration of Patient Safety Awareness Week, Sunday to March 8. This year, the week is focused on safe medication management and effective communication as the patient safety tools of choice. The theme,

  • 'Tiger' saves boy in Africa

    Nine-year-old Alex Vadis Teye has a skull twice the size of a normal child his age and it's still growing. Water consumes 80 percent of the space where his brain should be. His prognosis was bleak. "Was" is the key word, thanks to the efforts of a heating, ventilation and air conditioning technician

  • Here comes the Boom!

    "We have 10,000 pounds of net explosive weight on the pad right now," said Tech. Sgt. Erick Chrostowski. "If you see anybody running, try to keep up." This was the simplified version of the safety brief given to observers by the 455th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron AMMO production supervisor

  • Challenges No Match For Joint Task Force

    Ice storms in Kentucky. Dust storms in the Middle East. Thunderstorms across Europe. A typhoon in the Indian Ocean. They sound like individual, unrelated weather events. Now add having to organize, plan, and execute a military operation across the entire width of Africa, and do it all within a

  • Airmen find softer side in Africa

    In less than 12 hours Airmen from Joint Task Force-Nomad Fire (West) brought a humanitarian outreach event from concept to fruition benefiting 150 orphaned children here Feb. 18. The task force members deployed here to support U.S. President George Bush's visit to Africa. The team heard there was a

  • Expeditionary comm. team overcomes hurdles to provide presidential support

    An expeditionary communications unit here successfully overcame several challenges while supporting the president's three-day stopover to the east African nation. During setup, the 1st Combat Communications Squadron team encountered computer power problems in the command and control tent. They