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  • Joseph Wargo (right), U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency electronic technician, shows Spc. Russell Hamblin, 226th Medical Logistics Battalion, how to perform an operational check on the X-ray machine at one of the 212th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital’s warehouses on Miesau Army Depot in Kaiserslautern. Photo by Christine June

    Last MASH bids farewell

    Ending its almost eight-year run as the last of its kind, the 212th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital became the 212th Combat Support Hospital Monday on Miesau Army Depot. "Soldiers, you can be assured that if you are wounded on the battlefield, and you make it to the 212th CSH (pronounced "cash"), you will live," said Col. Angel Lugo, the last 212th
  • Botswana Defence Force Capt. Tino Phuthego, C-130 pilot, and U.S. Air Force Maj. Jim Wandmacher, 86th Operations Support Squadron C-130 navigator, discuss preflight procedures Sept. 24 at the Kigali International Airport in Rwanda. Photo by Capt. Erin Dorrance

    Ramstein Airmen fly with BDF into Darfur

    Ramstein Airmen flew with a Botswana Defence Force C-130 crew to the Darfur region of Sudan Sept. 23 and 24 to support the African Union peacekeeping mission there. Two C-130 crewmembers from the 86th Operations Support Squadron, aerial porters from the 86th Air Mobility Squadron, and a force protection specialist from the 786th Security Forces
  • The Bundeswehr gate guards ended their three-plus years of duty at Ramstein on Wednesday. Photo by Airman Heidi Holston

    Bundeswehr leave Ramstein

    After more than three years, the German Bundeswehr officially relinquished its role as guardian of the Ramstein gates on Wednesday. Guard duty was handed off to members of the 435th Security Forces Squadron at 10 p.m. that same day. "We are very grateful for the outstanding job the Bundeswehr did in supplementing base security," said Col. Kurt

  • AFN Kaiserslautern completes digital upgrade

    KMC audiences will be getting local news "when it happens" and more often with the completion of the Digital Video Upgrade Monday at American Forces Network Kaiserslautern on Vogelweh. "We are going to be able to serve the audience better," said Jerry Cormier, AFN Kaiserslautern broadcast operations director. "We can get more timely information out

  • Retiree Appreciation Day coming up

    Colonel Kurt Lohide, 435th Air Base Wing commander, invites area retirees to celebrate Retiree Appreciation Day Sept. 29 at Ramstein. The day will offer opportunities to hear about retiree issues, greet old friends and meet new ones. There will also be an update on Ramstein's future facilities, including a bus tour of the base. Registration will
  • Tech. Sgt. Hector Nieves, a crew chief with Ramstein’s 86th Contingency Response Group, is part of the Reverse Osmosis Water Purification Team assigned to the 212th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital to provide purified water for the nearly 200 personnel currently assigned to the MEDFLAG 2006 joint task force in Angola, Africa. Every day, the five-man team purifies over 3,000 gallons of sea water for the deployed MASH Unit. Photo by Airman 1st Class Kristi Mulder

    Exercise takes troops to Africa

    Dozens of KMC servicemembers recently traveled to countries along Africa's West Coast to take part in MEDFLAG 2006, an annual U.S. European Command combined military exercise aimed at forging stronger ties with African allies in the region. The 14-day exercise took place simultaneously in Senegal, Nigeria, Benin and Ghana, while other

  • Ramstein Airmen prepare for training in England

    Airmen ruffling through mobility folders, k-loaders moving pallets and maintainers turning wrenches on C-130s was the scene as the 86th Airlift Wing and 435th Air Base Wing completed phase I of an operational readiness exercise in preparation for the 37th Airlift Squadron's off-station trainer in England. After approximately 350 Airmen processed
  • A crewmember marshalls Ghostrider, the CH-60 helicopter assigned to USS Mount Whitney (LCC-20) to transfer personnel to the USS Wasp (LHD-1) for Joint Task Force Lebanon in the Mediterranean Sept. 6. Photo by Maj. Lisa Neidinger.

    KMC troops serve on JTF Lebanon

    Joint Task Force Lebanon consists of personnel from all military services and the Reserves, including approximately 30 embarked staff aboard the USS Mount Whitney (LCC/JCC 20) from the KMC. JTF Lebanon has two task forces coordinating air, land and maritime support to the U.S. Embassy in Beirut and providing security for humanitarian aid flowing in
  • Members of the 38th Combat Support Wing celebrate after receiving an “Excellent” rating in the wing’s first-ever Unit Compliance Inspection. Photo by Master Sgt. Richard C. Puckett

    UCI: 38th CSW is ‘Excellent’

    For three weeks - one week in March and two weeks in August - inspectors pored through every aspect of the 38th Combat Support Wing, a wing of more than 2,500 military and civilian personnel in 31 geographically separated units throughout the U.S. Air Forces in Europe theater. And during its inaugural Unit Compliance Inspection, the men and women
  • Sgt. 1st Class Peter Rimer, from the Army and Air Force Hometown News Service European team, gives the cue for the first take of Lt. Col. Richard Dix and his family (left) J.R., Chandler and wife, Cynthia, during last year’s Hometown News Holiday Greetings at the Vogelweh Commissary. Photo by Chrisine June

    Overseas Americans to send holiday greetings

    The Army and Air Force Hometown News Service from San Antonio will have a camera team in the KMC starting Monday to record holiday greetings for broadcast on local Stateside television and radio stations. The camera team will be here for five days at three different locations throughout the KMC tapping Hometown News Holiday Greetings to send to
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