• Mobile tower provides home-station training

    The 1st Combat Communications Squadron's Airfield Systems Flight is at it again. Training is how the Air Force gets the mission done, and it is how it takes a 22-person team and turns them into professional combat maintenance technicians. The team deploys at a moment's notice to set up bare base air

  • Shirts against violence

    The Integrated Delivery Services took time this month, Domestic Violence Awareness Month, to thank the men and women who make a difference. "We are celebrating First Sergeants and all they do because they are on the front lines in the campaign against domestic violence. We can't do our jobs without

  • Changes coming for Ramstein Tax Center

    The Ramstein Tax Center will initiate a new tax assistance program this year. Following the "best practices" program from Incirlik Air Base, Ramstein's Volunteer Income Tax Advisor program will focus on helping Airmen, Department of Defense civilians and their dependents learn to prepare and file

  • U.S. Air Force moves hybrid battalion into Darfur

    The U.S. Air Force provided airlift support to the Rwandan 55th Battalion Oct. 24. The battalion is one of two working as the United Nations-African Union Hybrid Operations in Darfur. The other battalion is from Nigeria. In July of 2007, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a

  • Military operation and urban terrain

    The 786th Security Forces Squadron had quite a showing for its two-week Creek Defender course. This course helps teach security forces members new tactical training methods and skills to better prepare them for situations that often occur in deployed environments. This time it was tweaked just a

  • Debunking the COLA myth

    The beginning of each fiscal year brings another Cost of Living Allowance change based on spendable income. SI is comprised of an average servicemember's total regular military compensation minus housing allowances, taxes, savings, life insurance, gifts and contributions. Rising costs in the U.S.

  • 700th CONS sets records, breaks ground

    It was just after midnight on Oct. 1, and a team from the 700th Contracting Squadron, along with Col. Earl Matthews, 435th Air Base Wing commander, took up shovels and dug into the ground on Rhine Ordnance Barracks. This midnight groundbreaking was a celebration of the passing of a record-breaking

  • New features make CFC donations quick, simple

    The Combined Federal Campaign-Overseas, which is underway now to Nov. 30, offers new features this year to make giving easier. Contributors wishing to donate with a credit card can access the electronic pledge card via the CFC-O Web site, www.cfcoverseas.org, and then click on the "Search & Pledge"

  • Hochspeyer Munitions Storage Area closes

    After more than 50 years of U.S. munitions activity, the final ammo-laden truck leaves Hochspeyer Munitions Storage Area Oct. 12. The 435th Munitions Squadron maintained the geographically separated storage area, the Hochspeyer Munitions Annex, which is about 40 minutes east of Ramstein. The

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