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  • 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

  • 1st CMXS Dragons scale, gut radar

    1st Communications Maintenance Squadron Airmen scaled and gutted two high-towering weather radars, saving 288 work hours, more than $7,000 in TDY funds and approximately $1 million in contractor removal fees. The radars, located at Sembach and Katterbach, belonged to the 21st Operational Weather

  • AADD saves

    AADD saves - not just one at a time, but countless lives on unnumbered nights. Armed forces Against Drunk Driving started in the KMC in 2003, and is a successful program that potentially saved more than 1,600 lives in 2007 and more than 10,500 lives in total. AADD's goal is to prevent accidents, and