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  • USAFE medics continue mission in Liberia

    Medics from U.S. Air Forces in Europe continued teaching a seven-week medical technician course to members of the Armed Forces of Liberia. This week, students learned the basics of patient assessment and intervention. The USAFE medics taught students how to take vital signs, conduct patient

  • Tax preparation: get early start

    The Ramstein volunteer income tax assistance program is available for all Department of Defense ID cardholders to assist with tax returns for the tax filing season. The first points of contact for getting taxes prepared are unit volunteer income tax advisors. Contact unit VITA representatives prior

  • CASF nears 40,000-patient milestone

    The 435th Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility is poised to receive its 40,000th patient since the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The number is a milestone for the CASF, which is part of a medical pipeline unknown to any other previous American conflict: one that moves an injured

  • USAFE medics bring expertise to Liberia

    A team of eight medics from five U.S. Air Forces in Europe bases recently arrived in Liberia as part of a technical training initiative for the new Armed Forces of Liberia. The country, which was ravaged by nearly 15 years of civil war before it held its first democratic election in November 2005,

  • Coming and going postal: APO down-low

    With more than 1,900 APO zip codes scattered across the globe, APO mail is a colossal system the Department of Defense manages, giving U.S. government employees working overseas a system that allows them to mail items as if they were in the U.S. In 2006, the APO mail system moved approximately

  • Congressional group visits LRMC, Ramstein

    A bipartisan group of lawmakers, including New York Senator Hillary Clinton, spent three days in Afghanistan and Iraq before stopping at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center Monday to assess that facility's care of wounded servicemembers. "What we've seen here is beyond positive," Senator Clinton said.

  • Control tower gets makeover

    Ramstein air traffic controllers left their 10-story tower for a one-story MSN-7 mobile control tower Jan. 10. During the next two months, the air traffic control tower will receive approximately $313,000 in upgrades that will transform the 1952 tower. "My pledge is to provide our outstanding Airmen

  • Operation Holiday Surprise welcomed by commissary shoppers

    Spirits are high during the holiday season, but checking accounts don't always follow suit. So when Sheilah Franklin was preparing to pay for a shopping cart full of groceries at the Ramstein Commissary, she was shocked and pleased by a last-second intervention by Operation Holiday Surprise.

  • Ramstein retires C-130E, J Models on the way

    Before every flight, the crew chief rubs his C-130E on the nose and gives it a kiss for good luck. Staff Sgt. Benjamin Comer gave Tail No. 7887 one last kiss Jan. 4 as the plane made its last flight to the "boneyard" at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Ariz., where it will be used for spare