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  • 'Day in the Life' project showcases right Airman, right job, right time

    With 680,000 active-duty, Guard, Reserve and civilian Airmen on duty around the globe today delivering speed, range, flexibility, precision and payloads, effectively showing others what that looks like can be a challenge.To deliver on this challenge, the 86th Airlift Wing at Ramstein Air Base,

  • A day of remembrance

    Airmen from across Ramstein gathered to pay their respects and honor prisoners of war and missing in action service members during a ceremony held at the officers club Sept. 19.Retired Col. Thomas Griffith, former Operation Desert Shield prisoner of war, and Col. Joseph McFall, 435th Air Ground

  • Allies remember sacrifices; Operation Market Garden

    End the war before Christmas was the plan in mind when American, British and Polish troops boarded aircraft and flew across the English Channel into the Netherlands to conduct Operation Market Garden on Sept. 17, 1944. The mission was an attempt to pierce the German defenses by capturing key

  • Air Advisors Branch reaches new level

    The 435th Air Ground Operations Wing's Air Advisor Branch executed five missions at once, the most it has ever done in one week, Sept. 15-19 in three NATO countries.The Air Advisor Branch is reaching out to three partner countries with five different missions traveling to learn and develop from each

  • Airmen remember 9/11, remain resilient

    On Sept. 11, the 86th Airlift Wing participated in a Resilience Day to build camaraderie between units. The event was executed in a sports day fashion which included tricycle races, a hula-hoop contest and volleyball, basketball, bowling and dodgeball tournaments. Jan Devitt, 86th AW community

  • Chiefs beat Eagles rally, 10-7

    Even after a second rally the eagles could not reach the chiefs' during the 2014 RUfit Resilience Day softball game.The game was the final event of the day, between colonels and chief master sergeants ending at the top of the 7th inning, 10-7 due to rain.The game began with the eagles up to bat but

  • CFC kicks off with Air Force win

    This year's Combined Federal Campaign-Overseas kicked off Sept. 5 with an Army vs. Air Force bubble soccer game.Col. G. Shawn Wells, U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz commander, put out a challenge video to the Air Force on YouTube, challenging them to a game of bubble soccer to start this year's

  • Motor vehicle accident reporting policy change

    A new policy change for reporting on- and off-base motor vehicle accidents will soon take effect to improve flexibility and convenience of reporting while stressing compliance with higher headquarter guidance, Air Force Instruction requirements and German law.U.S. forces and their dependents in the