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  • Airman 1st Class Brent Showalter, 1st Combat Communication Squadron radio maintenance technician, aims a directional wireless antenna to establish a link to a building roughly three quarters of a mile away. Airman Showalter is part of a 1st CBCS team in Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base, Romania supporting Exercise Viper Lance 2006. Photo by Senior Airman Mariana Mijangos.

    1st CBCS hooks up NATO exercise

    One mile of cable, six pallets of equipment and three days to set up fully functioning communications for a forward base is standard work for members of the 1st Combat Communications Squadron. About 13 members of the 1st CBCS, headquartered at Ramstein, are working in support of Exercise Viper Lance 2006, a bilateral exercise with members of the
  • Senior Master Sgt. Mark Pechman, 435th Communications Squadron, briefs Gen. Tom Hobbins, U.S. Air Forces in Europe commander, during a tour of postal operations at the Northside Post Office Aug. 18.

    COMUSAFE visits 86th, 435th units

    Check out photos from U.S. Air Forces in Europe Commander General Tom Hobbins visit to units from the 435th Air Base Wing and 86th Airlift Wing Aug. 18.
  • Cadet Amanda Wolf, a nursing student with St. Mary's University ROTC program, checks the vital signs of Cdr. Jim Stoneman, a Naval navigator and patient at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. The cadet worked and studied at LRMC during her two-week stay as part of the Nurse Summer Training Program.

    Cadets give a summer boost to LRMC

    Nursing school or hands-on experience in arguably the busiest military hospital in the world? A group of future officers has its cake and can eat it too, as both options were recently made available. For one month, eight nursing cadets and six Army Medical Department cadets came to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center to hone their skills working with
  • Airmen from Ramstein’s Honor Guard perform a retreat ceremony in front of the 86th Airlift Wing Headquarters building. The 86th Air and Space Communications Squadron will hold the next retreat at 4:30 p.m. Aug. 31 at Ramp 3, just across from the wing flagpoles.

    Paying respect to our flag

    At precisely 4:30 p.m. on the last duty day of this month the Ramstein Honor Guard will participate in the time-honored ceremony of lowering and folding the U.S. flag.It will be a formal affair with the Honor Guard in careful formation and a narrator saying a few words. "A flag is more than just a piece of cloth. A flag represents all that is great
  • Lt. Col. Mechelle B. Hale, U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern commander, accepts the Garrison Organizational Colors from Col. Willie E. Gaddis, USAG Heidelberg commander, in a change-of-command ceremony Aug. 10 at the Armstrong Community Club on Vogelweh Housing in Kaiserslautern.

    USAGK changes commanders

    Lt. Col. Mechelle B. Hale took command of the U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern Aug. 10 at the Armstrong Community Club on Vogelweh Housing. She succeeds Lt. Col. Erik O. Daiga, who goes to the Pentagon to serve with the Army Chief of Staff for Installation Management Office. "I'm honored by the privilege to become a part of this team," said

  • Out of Cyprus: a letter of thanks to Ramstein Airmen

    Editor's note: the following letter was submitted to the 435th Air Base Wing Public Affairs Office by a family who travelled through Ramstein following their departure from Lebanon. Words cannot describe my gratitude and appreciation to you and to everyone at the air base in Ramstein, Germany. My son Danny (15), my daughter Amanda (11) and I were
  • 435th Air Base Wing Command Chief Master Sgt. David Spector

    Q&A: new 435th ABW command chief

    The 435th Air Base Wing has a new command chief, Chief Master Sgt. David Spector. Chief Spector took a few minutes recently to answer some questions about his position, his expectations of the enlisted corps at Ramstein and his leadership philosophy. KA: What are your expectations of the enlisted corps at Ramstein? Chief Spector: First and
  • Capt. Chi Suh, a nurse with the 435th Medical Squadron, hugs his wife after returning from a humanitarian mission to Cyprus Aug. 7.

    86th CRG serve in Cyprus; 435th MDG Airmen return

    The recent movement of personnel and supplies in and out of Lebanon and Cyprus has been a massive undertaking, requiring cooperation across all U.S. service branches. Ramstein Airmen have been at the heart of the matter since the beginning. Members of the 86th Contingency Response Group continue to operate in Cyprus, and Airmen from the 435th
  • RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AFPN) -- Members of the 435th Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility transfer ABC anchorman Bob Woodruff to a C-17 Globemaster III here today. Mr. Woodruff and his cameraman, Doug Vogt, were injured in Iraq and had been treated for their injuries at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. The C-17 is from the Mississippi Air National Guard. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Amaani Lyle)

    Air Force evacuates ABC News team to U.S.

    An injured ABC News correspondent and cameraman were flown from here to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., today to receive additional medical treatment in the U.S.Anchorman Bob Woodruff and cameraman, Doug Vogt, were injured in Iraq and treated for their injuries at the Air Force Theater Hospital at Balad Air Base, Iraq, and later at Landstuhl Regional
  • RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AFPN) -- Staff Sgt. Bamidele Odeniyi (left) explains inventory procedures and operations to Lance Corporals Joel Sefako and Bathoeng Keakwala from the Botswana Defense Force during their visit to the 435th Logistics Readiness Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. John E. Lasky)

    Botswana Defense Force learns about warehouse management

    Five members of the Botswana Defense Force, or BDF, visited Ramstein last week to learn about the Air Force's warehouse management procedures and operations.The 435th Logistics Readiness Squadron hosted the visit, touring the group through the base's inbound cargo sections, receiving section, storage and issue element, hazardous materials section,
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