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  • Tickets available for USAFE's Annual Awards Banquet

    Tickets for the U.S. Air Forces in Europe Annual Awards Banquet are available for purchase. The USAFE Annual Awards Banquet will be 6:30 p.m. on April 6 at the Ramstein Air Base Officers' Club. Ticket prices for the mixed grill (chicken and beef) are $27 for club members and $29 for nonmembers; for the grilled salmon are $24 for club members and
  • Captains Dan and Sarah Santoro, pilots with Ramstein’s 37th Airlift Squadron, have spent over 1,000 days deployed together in support of the Global War on Terrorism. Photo by Senior Airman Erin Peterson

    For better or worse: Married couple shares life, mission

    Most couples usually spend anniversaries, birthdays and Valentine's Day at a candlelit dinner. Captains Dan and Sarah Santoro are a little different, however; they usually spend their big days together in deployed locations throughout Southwest Asia. Since they started flying for operational squadrons in 2003, the couple has spent 1,070 days
  • General Johnston and Chief Viel STEP promote Tech. Sgt. James Ewing from the rank of staff sergeant. Photo by Airman 1st Class Levi Riendeau

    86th Airmen receive STEP promotions

    The two Airmen never even saw it coming. Master Sgt. Jeff Smith, an air transportation specialist for the 86th Air Mobility Squadron, and Tech. Sgt. James Ewing, a flight engineer for the 37th Airlift Squadron were both promoted Feb. 16 under the Stripes for Exceptional Performers program. "I had just got back from Kosovo and wasn't in the loop on
  • Dietmar Malek, technical engineer for the HEAT A1 project, inspects the device’s humvee cabin Feb. 14 prior to a demonstration at Maintenance Activity Kaiserslautern. Photo by Pfc. Stephen Decatur

    ROLLOVER REVOLUTION: Improved trainer helps prepare Soldiers

    There's smoke and dust everywhere. Blood is rushing to your head, and you can feel the pressure building in your eyes. You know you need to get out, and if you've never had the experience before, you just might be freaking out. Luckily for you, there's now a way to experience a vehicle rollover without actually being in one. 21st Theater Support
  • Medics from U.S. Air Forces in Europe, including Senior Master Sgt. Daryl Webb (in sunglasses) and Tech. Sgt. Elizabeth Burrell (black t-shirt), 435th Medical Group, join members of the Armed Forces of Liberia in stabilizing a victim from an auto accident. The AFL members finished learning how to quickly treat and transport victims of trauma moments earlier. (U.S. Air Force photo/Maj. Kimberly Pietszak)

    USAFE, Liberia medics save lives

    There would be no questions on this test. Within minutes of completing two days of rigorous training in Liberia taught by medics from the U.S. Air Forces in Europe, 23 Armed Forces of Liberia medical technicians were put to the test when they responded to a high-speed vehicle roll-over. Outside the gate to the remote military barracks where the

  • KMC Airman receives Bronze Star for efforts in Iraq

    It was, in short, an ambush. It is a story of blasts from multiple improvised explosive devices, small arms fire bursting from the grass, and a long wait, exposed on Iraq's deadly roads. But it's a tale Tech. Sgt. Matthew Walter tells dismissively. "They started it," the Reynolds, Ind., native said. "So I had to do my job." For performing his job
  • Missile maintainers prepare to remove the rocket motor from an older AIM-120A advanced medium-range air to air missile. Removing the motor and placing it in a newer and more cabable AIM-120B or C model has saved the Air Force more than $31 million. These Airmen are from the 435th Munitions Squadron at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. (U.S. Air Force photo)

    MUNS missile overhaul creates big savings

    When U.S. Air Forces in Europe recently moved to shift serviceable rocket motors from the older, first generation AIM-120A Advanced Medium-Range Air to Air Missiles and put them in the unserviceable, yet newer and more capable AIM-120B and C models, the 435th Munitions Squadron volunteered to front the effort. "The new-acquisition costs would have
  • Members of the Armed Forces of Liberia listen while Tech. Sgt. Elizabeth Burrell of the 435th Medical Operations Squadron teaches them how to place injured personnel on a backboard. A team of U.S. Air Forces in Europe medics recently completed a week two (of seven) in a medical technician course that teaches members of the AFL the basics of patient assessment and intervention. Photo by Maj. Kimberly Piestzak

    USAFE medics continue mission in Liberia

    Medics from U.S. Air Forces in Europe continued teaching a seven-week medical technician course to members of the Armed Forces of Liberia. This week, students learned the basics of patient assessment and intervention. The USAFE medics taught students how to take vital signs, conduct patient histories, recognize signs and symptoms, and assess a

  • 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
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