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  • Senior Master Sgt. Daryl Webb teaches respiratory-system anatomy to members of the Armed Forces of Liberia. Sergeant Webb is assigned to the 435th Medical Operations Squadron from Ramstein Air Base, Germany. (Courtesy photo)

    USAFE medics bring expertise to Liberia

    A team of eight medics from five U.S. Air Forces in Europe bases recently arrived in Liberia as part of a technical training initiative for the new Armed Forces of Liberia. The country, which was ravaged by nearly 15 years of civil war before it held its first democratic election in November 2005, is working with American forces to help swell the
  • Staff members from European postal detachments 2, 3 and 4 work daily to ensure APO mail is received, transported and delivered. Courtesy photo

    Coming and going postal: APO down-low

    With more than 1,900 APO zip codes scattered across the globe, APO mail is a colossal system the Department of Defense manages, giving U.S. government employees working overseas a system that allows them to mail items as if they were in the U.S. In 2006, the APO mail system moved approximately 100,000 tons of mail, which is the equivalent of moving
  • Spc. Doyce Leatherwood of Alpha Company 2/227 First Cavalry Division talks with senators Evan Bayh and Hillary Clinton during Monday's visit by the lawmakers to LRMC. Photo by Thomas Warner

    Congressional group visits LRMC, Ramstein

    A bipartisan group of lawmakers, including New York Senator Hillary Clinton, spent three days in Afghanistan and Iraq before stopping at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center Monday to assess that facility's care of wounded servicemembers. "What we've seen here is beyond positive," Senator Clinton said. "Democrats or Republicans alike have one thing in
  • Ramstein air traffic controllers work from a mobile control tower while the existing tower receives repairs. Photo by Capt. Erin Dorrance

    Control tower gets makeover

    Ramstein air traffic controllers left their 10-story tower for a one-story MSN-7 mobile control tower Jan. 10. During the next two months, the air traffic control tower will receive approximately $313,000 in upgrades that will transform the 1952 tower. "My pledge is to provide our outstanding Airmen with a 21st century airfield operations facility
  • A student attempts to manuever a sedan through a slalom obstacle at the Anti-terrorism Driving Course here Jan. 5. Photo by Senior Airman Megan Carrico.

    Airmen learn to recognize, respond to threats at anti-terrorism driving course

    The tires of the mud-covered Opel Vectra spin on wet pavement and the sedan launches toward a 90-degree turn with speed. The instructor in the passenger seat firmly tells the student driver to wait for instructions before deviating from the collision course. The driver is white-knuckling the wheel and the two passengers in the back seat -fellow
  • Sheilah Franklin (left) and her husband, Army Sgt. Derrick Franklin, react in surprise when told by Laurelle Dicks (right) their holiday grocery tab had just been paid courtesy of Operation Holiday Surprise sponsored by the Ramstein Enlisted Spouses Association. Cashier Sheila Medina, who was also in on the surprise, looks on. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Chuck Roberts)

    Operation Holiday Surprise welcomed by commissary shoppers

    Spirits are high during the holiday season, but checking accounts don't always follow suit. So when Sheilah Franklin was preparing to pay for a shopping cart full of groceries at the Ramstein Commissary, she was shocked and pleased by a last-second intervention by Operation Holiday Surprise. Clandestinely underway since Thanksgiving, the holiday

  • Ramstein retires C-130E, J Models on the way

    Before every flight, the crew chief rubs his C-130E on the nose and gives it a kiss for good luck. Staff Sgt. Benjamin Comer gave Tail No. 7887 one last kiss Jan. 4 as the plane made its last flight to the "boneyard" at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Ariz., where it will be used for spare parts. Tail No. 7887 is the first of three C-130E
  • Senior Airman Christopher O'Dai, 723rd Air Mobility Squadron counter measures technician, continually squeezes a ball to help with blood flow during his unit's blood drive Dec. 13 at the 64th Replacement Battalion in the Ramstein Passenger Terminal.

    Eligible blood donors bear the weight

    Eligible American blood donors in Europe are doing an amazing job, said Sgt. Terry Keith, U.S. Army Europe Blood Donor Center mobile collections NCOIC. The USAREUR Blood Donor Center here is the only Armed Services Blood Program in Europe. About 90 percent of the blood collected by the center stays in Europe with about 80 percent of it going to
  • Staff Sgt. Mark Paraoan, 1st Combat Communications Squadron, monitors the lighting control panel in the Air Traffic Control Tower on Ramstein Air Base Dec. 29. The base air traffic controllers are responsible for monitoring the ILS to ensure all components of the system are working.

    Fog and snow won’t keep planes away from Ramstein

    On Christmas Day, a C-17 Globemaster departed Iraq carrying 14 patients requiring medical care at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany. Due to a low-ceiling visibility, the C-17 requested the first-ever CAT II instrument landing system approach to a Ramstein runway, just three days after the system had been declared operational. One urgent,
  • FILE PHOTO -- The C-21A provides cargo and passenger airlift and can transport litters during medical evacuations. The C-21A's turbofan engines are pod-mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage. The swept-back wings have hydraulically actuated, single-slotted flaps. The aircraft has a retractable tricycle landing gear, single steerable nose gear and multiple-disc hydraulic brakes. The C-21A can carry eight passengers and 42 cubic feet (1.26 cubic meters) of cargo. The fuel capacity of the C-21A is 931 gallons (3,537.8 liters) carried in wingtip tanks. The safety and operational capabilities of the C-21A are increased by the autopilot, color weather radar and tactical air navigation (TACAN) system, as well as HF, VHF and UHF radios. Delivery of the C-21A fleet began in April 1984 and was completed in October 1985. Glasco, a subsidiary of Learjet, Inc., provides full contractor logistics support at 16 worldwide locations. (U.S. Air Force photo)

    Ramstein loses three C-21s

    The 76th Airlift Squadron will lose three of its 13 C-21A aircraft by the end of the month, as the U.S. Air Force retires the aircraft from the active duty inventory. The C-21 is the military version of the Lear Jet 35A business jet and is used primarily for senior-level passengers, cargo airlift and aeromedical evacuations. "No commander wants to
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