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  • Mother, leader wins Volunteer of the Year Award

    Pamela Howard's journey with girl scouts started ten years ago when she got her daughters involved because they had so much energy, and now a decade later, Mrs. Howard is more involved with Girl Scouts than she thought she would ever be. Mrs. Howard, the troop leader for Troops 749 and 333, recently

  • New online housing support available to USAFE Airmen

    Airmen moving into or out of the United States Air Forces in Europe command now have a access to a new online housing support program. USAFE housing offices are implementing the new Internet-based Automated Housing Referral Network, AHRN.com, to facilitate the long-distance house-hunting process

  • Academy cadets receive hands-on training during Ops AF

    U.S. Air Force Academy cadets got a taste of what the aeromedical evacuation mission is all about June 16 on the Ramstein Air Base flightline. Through briefings and hands-on training, the cadets learned how the 86th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, along with the 435th Contingency Aeromedical

  • Volunteers needed for Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command

    Volunteers are needed for Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command missions to Laos & Vietnam. The mission of JPAC is to achieve the fullest possible accounting of all Americans missing as a result of the nation's past conflicts. The highest priority of the organization is the return of any living Americans

  • Ramstein airfield manager named best in Air Force

    Tech. Sgt. Shawn Smith, 86th Air Mobility Squadron contingency airfield manager, was recently selected as the Air Force Airfield Management Noncommissioned Officer of the Year. According to Air Force Instruction 36-2807, the award recognizes staff sergeants and technical sergeants in the airfield

  • PCS policy changes promote stability, quality of life

    Air Force officials have modified two permanent change of station policies to give Airmen more flexible assignment options and better force development opportunities. The time on station requirement for government funded join-spouse assignments, where the Air Force assigns military couples (when

  • Preferred providers tour Ramstein medical facilities

    Members from the TRICARE-Europe Preferred Provider Network toured medical facilities they help support here, June 4, in an effort to bring host nation physicians and medical staff together. Among those facilities was the 435th Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility, as well as a static tour of an

  • Ramstein opens new facility, provides IT support

    Air Combat Command's 690th Network Systems Squadron Detachment 1 recently celebrated the grand opening of the Ramstein Enterprise Information Technology Service Desk here with a ribbon cutting ceremony May 29. "This ESD facility opening is a very special event for Air Force network operations," said

  • 86th AGE flight shows benefits of AFSO21

    In March 2006 when former Secretary of the Air Force Michael W. Wynne called for a new way to evaluate how the Air Force operates, called AFSO21, he encouraged the elimination of unnecessary steps. He suggested the Air Force leverage on technology, using the right tools and techniques to see any