• 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,

  • Shirts against violence

    The Integrated Delivery Services took time this month, Domestic Violence Awareness Month, to thank the men and women who make a difference. "We are celebrating First Sergeants and all they do because they are on the front lines in the campaign against domestic violence. We can't do our jobs without

  • Changes coming for Ramstein Tax Center

    The Ramstein Tax Center will initiate a new tax assistance program this year. Following the "best practices" program from Incirlik Air Base, Ramstein's Volunteer Income Tax Advisor program will focus on helping Airmen, Department of Defense civilians and their dependents learn to prepare and file

  • Military operation and urban terrain

    The 786th Security Forces Squadron had quite a showing for its two-week Creek Defender course. This course helps teach security forces members new tactical training methods and skills to better prepare them for situations that often occur in deployed environments. This time it was tweaked just a

  • Airmen deliver donations to Rwandan orphanage

    Coloring books, soccer balls and tennis shoes were delivered along with other donations to an orphanage here Oct. 27 by U.S. Air Force Airmen. The donations were delivered by Airmen from the 86th Contingency Response Group, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, and C-17 Globemaster aircrews from Charleston