• Airmen pump up C-130 capabilities

    On Aug. 12, the 37th Airlift Squadron conducted "Wet Wing" training, which enables C-130 airframes to have the capability to defuel with four engines running as opposed to two. Defueling is when an aircraft is sent to a location to refuel other aircraft.Being in a central European country,

  • Air Force revamps AEF

    The Air Force will deploy Agile Combat Support Airmen under its redesigned air expeditionary force construct October 1. The primary purpose of the redesign was to look at ways to deploy more ACS Airmen with their units and standardize dwell times across the Air Force as much as possible to present a

  • Preparing defense instructors

    Walking down a street alone, you receive a text message. While responding, you don't notice the person quickly approaching from behind. By the time you do, it's too late. The person moves to strike. What do you do?More than 100 members from the Kaiserslautern Military Community and other U.S.

  • Partnership maintain NCO corps one NCO at a time

    It is another day at the Kisling NCO Academy for an ambitious senior NCO. He sits at his desk cluttered with homework, notebooks and pens in an attempt to understand and learn how to interact and relate with Airmen.What sets him apart from the 15 other students wearing the recognizable sage green,

  • ANG brings air power to Europe for Steadfast Javelin II

    More than 60 Airmen from the Air National Guard traveled from various units throughout the U.S. to support the two-week long NATO-led exercise, Steadfast Javelin II. The exercise prepares U.S., NATO Allies and European security partners by conducting unified land operations through the simultaneous

  • Aircrews deliver on time, target for Steadfast Javelin II

    More than a dozen C-130 and C-17 aircraft from two continents and six states are providing tactical airlift from the power projection platform known as Ramstein Air Base for Exercise Steadfast Javelin II.The NATO-led exercise, taking place Aug. 31st through Sept. 11th here, includes active-duty and

  • AMC brings the Strykers

    Air Mobility Command's mission is to provide rapid, global mobility and sustainment for America's armed forces, a capability demonstrated during Steadfast Javelin II, a large-scale, joint, multinational exercise held on Ramstein Air Base, Germany, from Aug. 31 through Sept. 11.The exercise further

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