• Pushing 315 prescriptions a day

    The Ramstein 86th Medical Group Pharmacy provides excellent customer service and convenient locations for your daily pharmaceutical needs. Extended locations include; a 24-hour prescription pick-up location inside the Kaiserslautern Military Community Center, which includes a large variety of

  • Overseas housing allowance survey to begin Apr.1

    U.S. Air Forces in Europe will conduct an Overseas Housing Allowance Survey Apr. 1 through 30, 2012. The survey is intended to measure the amount of compensation service members are receiving from OHA to live in privately leased or rented residential housing.All service members, regardless of

  • KMC hosts Mayors' Forum

    U.S. military and host nation officials met during the Kaiserslautern Military Community's semi-annual Mayors' Forum at the Rathaus in Bruchmühlbach-Miesau Feb. 29. The forum provides U.S. military and host nation officials the opportunity to exchange information and express concerns in an informal

  • New alternate tower tested; mission success

    Mission success, 86th Operations Support Squadron Air Traffic Controllers tested the ability to operate in an alternate tower near the flight-line, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, March 2, 2012. Air Tower Control facilities are required to have specific procedures and equipment in place to conduct

  • Hundreds gather to celebrate Dr. Seuss’ birthday

    More than 300 children and parents gathered at the base library here in celebration of Dr. Seuss' 108th Birthday March 2.The crowd listened as the classic children books were read by various volunteers, such as Lt. Col. Todd R. Alcott, the 86th Force Support Squadron commander, Senior Master Sgt.

  • Understanding the gravity of the situation

    86th Operation Support Squadron aircrew flight technicians, installs locking loops to rip chords of an emergency aircraft parachute,  March 5, 2012.  An emergency aircraft parachute helps decrease the speed during landing.The 86th OSS provides airfield operation management, air traffic control,

  • 86th AW command chief speaks to Airmen at enlisted call

    In his first official enlisted calls on Feb. 27 and 28, the 86th Airlift Wing's newest command chief introduced himself and outlined his themes and concerns for the wing at Hangar 2 here.Command Chief Master Sgt. James Morris, a native of Berwyn, Ill., previously served as command chief for the 19th

  • Major receives German award for moral courage

    "There was no time to think; I just did it ... it was about helping someone out and doing the right thing."Maj. Deron Warren, an emergency room physician for the Landstuhl Regional Medical Facility in Germany, stopped a robbery at a restaurant in Kaiserslautern, Germany, in April 2011. For his

  • Fleet Services reaches new heights

    The 721st Aerial Port Squadron Fleet Services Flight won its second straight Air Mobility Command Fleet Services Flight of the year award and won its third straight Air Mobility Operations Wing flight of the year, becoming the first flight to achieve both milestones.Fleet services is responsible for

  • German orphans tour Ramstein

    Three children from the St. Nikolaus Kinderheim, an orphanage in Landstuhl, Germany, got a taste of Ramstein and its facilities during a tour of the base Feb. 23."We've been organizing support for the orphanage for more than seven years now and never had the opportunity to show the children the

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