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  • 2019 Recommended Holiday Season Mailing Dates and Mailing Tips

    The 2019 recommended holiday season mailing dates for postal customers assigned to the European theater are: USPS Retail Ground/Space Available Mail (SAM) – 27 November 2019 First Class Mail – 11 December 2019 Priority Mail – 11 December 2019 Priority Mail Express Military Service (PMEMS) – 18

  • Cities supporting U.S. bases in Europe formalize friendship

    The mayors of Rota, Spain and Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany signed a city partnership agreement at Ramstein-Miesenbach City Hall on April 8. U. S. Air Force Col. George Granholm, 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing vice commander, served as a witness for the agreement.

  • Air Force Expeditionary Center commander visits 521st AMOW units

    U. S. Air Force Maj Gen John Gordy, Air Force Expeditionary Center commander, visited organizations aligned under the 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing. The squadrons, detachments, and operating locations that comprise the 521st AMOW are part of the global air mobility support system.

  • Leaders know when to follow

    U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Gerald Walker, 728th Air Mobility Squadron hydraulic journeyman, was one of 150 students from the 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing and 512th Airlift Wing completing an unprecedented training opportunity on a C-5M Super Galaxy aircraft from Nov. 26 – Dec. 6, 2018 on

  • 521st AMOW celebrates 10th Anniversary

    The 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing will celebrate its tenth anniversary and long history of safely expediting maximum war-fighting and humanitarian effects through rapid and precise global air mobility across a more than 5000 mile area of responsibility Sept. 4, 2018, on Ramstein Air Base,

  • 5th EAMS teams up with 521st AMOW maintainers during C-17 engine swap

    The 5th Expeditionary Air Mobility Squadron recently teamed up with the 721st Air Mobility Operations Group from Ramstein Air Base, Germany, to replace an engine on a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia.The engine swap, which took less than one day to complete,

  • 521st AMOW Airmen assist in keeping mission moving

    A team of en route maintenance Airmen recently converged from multiple locations to respond as part of a Maintenance Recovery Team, returning a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft back to the mobility fleet from a forward deployed location in Southwest Asia.Maintenance professionals identified repairs to