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  • Get ready, it's flu season

    FluMist, an influenza vaccine applied as a nasal spray, is the vaccine of choice for those ages 2 to 49. The more traditional flu shot is administered to those who are younger - ages 6 months to two years old, those older than 49, and those for whom FluMist is not recommended, for example, pregnant

  • I am a marine

    Staff Sgt. Ben A. Coleman is a Marine liaison at the 435th Medical Group Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility. He greets all injured Marines, coming from downrange, arriving at Ramstein. His job is to keep the Marines family and unit updated about all the steps of the Marine's progress through

  • Ghosts and goblins need to be safe, too

    The beautifully-colored leaves are falling and the temperatures are dropping -- it is almost Halloween. All KMC children are invited to come on base and trick or treat on Halloween from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in the KMC housing areas (Ramstein, Vogelweh and Sembach). Once the children have filled up

  • Dont even think about mailing meat ...

    Many U.S. personnel in Europe have received a $100 fine from the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection because they mailed packages of wurst, ham or pâté to America. And, the infestations of animal disease have cost the U.S. taxpayers millions of dollars each year. It is illegal to import red

  • Ramstein Airmen join team in Iraq

    Six takeoffs. Six landings. Twelve hours. All in a day's work for aircrew members of the 737th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron taking on the mission known as the "pain train." "It's called the pain train because there's just 30 minutes between each stop," said Capt. Robin Cadow, 737 EAS pilot. "At

  • 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