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  • Tax preparation: get early start

    The Ramstein volunteer income tax assistance program is available for all Department of Defense ID cardholders to assist with tax returns for the tax filing season. The first points of contact for getting taxes prepared are unit volunteer income tax advisors. Contact unit VITA representatives prior to calling the Ramstein tax office for an
  • Senior Airman Wesley Arnold, a medic for the 435th Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility, loads medical equipment into an ambulance before picking up a patient flown in from downrage Jan. 10. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Megan Carrico)

    CASF nears 40,000-patient milestone

    The 435th Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility is poised to receive its 40,000th patient since the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The number is a milestone for the CASF, which is part of a medical pipeline unknown to any other previous American conflict: one that moves an injured servicemember back stateside within 72 to 96 hours of
  • Senior Master Sgt. Daryl Webb teaches respiratory-system anatomy to members of the Armed Forces of Liberia. Sergeant Webb is assigned to the 435th Medical Operations Squadron from Ramstein Air Base, Germany. (Courtesy photo)

    USAFE medics bring expertise to Liberia

    A team of eight medics from five U.S. Air Forces in Europe bases recently arrived in Liberia as part of a technical training initiative for the new Armed Forces of Liberia. The country, which was ravaged by nearly 15 years of civil war before it held its first democratic election in November 2005, is working with American forces to help swell the
  • Staff members from European postal detachments 2, 3 and 4 work daily to ensure APO mail is received, transported and delivered. Courtesy photo

    Coming and going postal: APO down-low

    With more than 1,900 APO zip codes scattered across the globe, APO mail is a colossal system the Department of Defense manages, giving U.S. government employees working overseas a system that allows them to mail items as if they were in the U.S. In 2006, the APO mail system moved approximately 100,000 tons of mail, which is the equivalent of moving
  • Spc. Doyce Leatherwood of Alpha Company 2/227 First Cavalry Division talks with senators Evan Bayh and Hillary Clinton during Monday's visit by the lawmakers to LRMC. Photo by Thomas Warner

    Congressional group visits LRMC, Ramstein

    A bipartisan group of lawmakers, including New York Senator Hillary Clinton, spent three days in Afghanistan and Iraq before stopping at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center Monday to assess that facility's care of wounded servicemembers. "What we've seen here is beyond positive," Senator Clinton said. "Democrats or Republicans alike have one thing in
  • Ramstein air traffic controllers work from a mobile control tower while the existing tower receives repairs. Photo by Capt. Erin Dorrance

    Control tower gets makeover

    Ramstein air traffic controllers left their 10-story tower for a one-story MSN-7 mobile control tower Jan. 10. During the next two months, the air traffic control tower will receive approximately $313,000 in upgrades that will transform the 1952 tower. "My pledge is to provide our outstanding Airmen with a 21st century airfield operations facility
  • A student attempts to manuever a sedan through a slalom obstacle at the Anti-terrorism Driving Course here Jan. 5. Photo by Senior Airman Megan Carrico.

    Airmen learn to recognize, respond to threats at anti-terrorism driving course

    The tires of the mud-covered Opel Vectra spin on wet pavement and the sedan launches toward a 90-degree turn with speed. The instructor in the passenger seat firmly tells the student driver to wait for instructions before deviating from the collision course. The driver is white-knuckling the wheel and the two passengers in the back seat -fellow
  • Sheilah Franklin (left) and her husband, Army Sgt. Derrick Franklin, react in surprise when told by Laurelle Dicks (right) their holiday grocery tab had just been paid courtesy of Operation Holiday Surprise sponsored by the Ramstein Enlisted Spouses Association. Cashier Sheila Medina, who was also in on the surprise, looks on. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Chuck Roberts)

    Operation Holiday Surprise welcomed by commissary shoppers

    Spirits are high during the holiday season, but checking accounts don't always follow suit. So when Sheilah Franklin was preparing to pay for a shopping cart full of groceries at the Ramstein Commissary, she was shocked and pleased by a last-second intervention by Operation Holiday Surprise. Clandestinely underway since Thanksgiving, the holiday

  • Ramstein retires C-130E, J Models on the way

    Before every flight, the crew chief rubs his C-130E on the nose and gives it a kiss for good luck. Staff Sgt. Benjamin Comer gave Tail No. 7887 one last kiss Jan. 4 as the plane made its last flight to the "boneyard" at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Ariz., where it will be used for spare parts. Tail No. 7887 is the first of three C-130E
  • Senior Airman Christopher O'Dai, 723rd Air Mobility Squadron counter measures technician, continually squeezes a ball to help with blood flow during his unit's blood drive Dec. 13 at the 64th Replacement Battalion in the Ramstein Passenger Terminal.

    Eligible blood donors bear the weight

    Eligible American blood donors in Europe are doing an amazing job, said Sgt. Terry Keith, U.S. Army Europe Blood Donor Center mobile collections NCOIC. The USAREUR Blood Donor Center here is the only Armed Services Blood Program in Europe. About 90 percent of the blood collected by the center stays in Europe with about 80 percent of it going to
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