• Service Members Receiving RAND Military Workplace Survey

    About 580,000 service members have begun receiving emails or letters inviting them to participate in the first RAND Military Workplace Study, Defense Department officials said.Active and reserve component members in all military branches and the Coast Guard are being invited to participate."The

  • Housing appointment backlog addressed

    The Kaiserslautern Military Community housing office at Vogelweh, Germany recently took steps to reduce a four-week backlog for customers who need appointments. All overseas housing allowance documents are still being processed in a timely manner to start and stop allowances. The backlog, a combined

  • C-130 celebrates 60 years of flying

    It was Aug. 23, 1954, when the prototype YC-130 took off for its inaugural flight from Lockheed Air Terminal - now Bob Hope Airport - in Los Angeles County, California. The aircraft's history began in 1951 when the Air Force issued a request for proposal for a medium cargo plane. The Lockheed

  • Child development center increases space for children

    The 86th Force Support Squadron child development center here added an annex close to their current facilities, which will be available to the public August 18.Volunteers will be gathered at building 800 to pull weeds, pick up trash and move furniture to help with the almost finished project. "The

  • British cadets visit Kisling NCO Academy

    More than 40 British Air Training Corps cadets visited the Kisling NCO Academy to garner knowledge about the Air Force lifestyle and education system.The cadets received a tour of the Kisling NCOA facilities, witnessed a retreat ceremony and participated in group-building exercises centered on

  • NATO opens kitchen to all

    A Greek, an American, a German and their dependents walked up to the bar, a salad bar. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization compound International Dinning Facility recently opened its doors to all personnel with access to Ramstein offering vegetables, drinks and food Aug. 6, 2014. Until the recent

  • Left-handed Airmen get own holiday

    August 13 is "International Left-Hander's Day" to honor those who smudge their papers and awkwardly bump elbows with righties. It's a day to spread awareness of the struggles of being left-handed, and also encourages right-handed people to try doing daily tasks with their left hand.People who are

  • POV shipment issues to be addressed

    Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command and U.S. Transportation Command are using transportation experts this week to address the challenges and concerns military customers are facing when shipping their privately owned vehicles.On May 1, International Auto Logistics, known as IAL,

  • Airmen turn C-130 into mobile ER

    A C-130J Super Hercules was converted into a flying critical care unit in mid-air after leaving Ramstein on a real-world mission July 26, 2014."There is no other capability like this in the Air Force," said Maj. Jennifer Jamison Gines, 86th Medical Squadron acute care nurse practitioner. "We had a

  • Air Force to change enlisted evaluations, promotions

     Air Force officials announced a series of sweeping changes to the Enlisted Evaluation System and Weighted Airman Promotion System July 31.The changes are intended to ensure the Air Force truly makes job performance the driving factor and will be implemented incrementally beginning in August 2014

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