• Moron participates in Job Shadow Day

    This year, the local students conducted a half-day visit to their assigned sponsors and had a unique opportunity to explore different career fields. The participating career fields were airfield operations, air traffic control, logistics, civil engineering, knowledge operations and communications,

  • AF Aid Society provides alternative to pay-day loans

    The Air Force Aid Society starts its new Falcon Loan available to Air Force members March 3. The Falcon Loan is an interest-free loan of $500 or less that can be used for emergency needs such as basic living expenses (rent, utilities, and food), car repairs, emergency travel, or other approved

  • Use care when calling: the hidden cost of phone calls

    No one person is responsible for the staggering $80,000 phone bill for Ramstein Air Base each month, but hold the phone: many are contributing to it. At stateside bases, communications squadrons purchase service from a telecommunications company to handle non-DSN off-base calls. Since local non-toll

  • Hungarian AF leader visits Ramstein

    Third Air Force hosted a delegate of Hungarian Air Force leaders at Ramstein Feb. 5 to 6 and shared C-17 Globemaster interoperability procedures with its European neighbor. During the two-day visit, Lt. Gen. Rod Bishop, 3rd Air Force commander, gave Hungarian Lt. Gen. Lazlo Tombol, Joint Force

  • GACO observes fifth anniversary

    The German-American Community Office is celebrating its fifth anniversary Tuesday. The office, located across from the city hall in Kaiserslautern, has established itself as the contact point for all questions pertaining to members of different nations living together. Bilingual assistants,

  • Do I need a German Emissions "Umweltzone" sticker?

    The answer is maybe, but most likely no. Decals are only required if traveling into environmental green zones (inner city zones with high pollution levels). Today, only three cities in Germany (Berlin, Hannover and Koln) require you to have a sticker. The stickers are not required on major highways

  • Rental cars may not have snow tires

    Customers renting a car from a rental agency in winter should make sure the car is equipped with snow tires. Car rental agencies are not obliged to put snow tires on all of their cars. If an accident occurs due to ice and snow, the renter is fully liable. Even if renters get a collision damage

  • Every vote counts

    The election season is in full swing and the 2d Air Postal Squadron is working diligently to ensure every vote in U.S. Air Forces in Europe counts. Squadron personnel monitor 51 postal locations on a daily basis throughout USAFE to make sure absentee ballots and voting material is properly handled

  • Acting to prevent violence: let’s stop sexual assault

    The U.S Air Forces in Europe Sexual Assault Prevention and Response program is offering several performances by a professional acting company that specializes in teaching people about preventing relationship violence. Deana's Educational Theater from Boston will tour Ramstein, Spangdahlem Air Base,

  • German smoking ban to go into effect

    In most German states, smoking in restaurants, pubs, discotheques, movie theaters, schools, hospitals and public institutions is prohibited as of Jan. 1. The states of Baden-Wuerrtemberg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen and Hessen implemented the non-smokers protection law last year already.

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