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  • Blue Tail Flies demonstrate flexibility in response to humanitarian crisis

    The men and women of the 37th Airlift Squadron perform approximately 2,500 training and real-world missions annually in support of military operations all over the world. And on occasion, the "Blue Tail Flies" are asked to show their flexibility and ability to respond with little or no notice in

  • Veteran shares his story at Retiree Appreciation Day event

    The face of the Kaiserslautern Military Community is not just the average Airmen, Soldier, Sailor or Marine that lives or works here every day.Another group that calls the KMC home are those that have made the military a career, retired and have elected to stay here in Germany.(Retired) Chief Master

  • Proper nutrition, exercise is essential to mission success

    Like an aircraft needs jet fuel, your body needs proper nutrition to replenish itself and function at peak performance. In today's military environment with increased deployments and new physical testing requirements, it even more imperative that Airmen know the importance nutrition can play in

  • Don’t ‘bank’ on COLA

    Living overseas can be expensive. However, things like the Cost of Living Allowance, or COLA, are designed to help offset expenses occurred from the local economy. But officials stress that Airmen should not view COLA as a reliable source of income, and encourage them to save it where possible for

  • Lifestyles: Ramstein hosts 14th farmers market Sunday

    For the 14th year, the Rheinland-Pfalz Agricultural Chamber from Kaiserslautern and the city of Ramstein-Miesenbach will sponsor the big farmers' market Sunday, when Germans celebrate Thanksgiving. The market features farmers presenting their products, an animal show, historical tractors' display,

  • Lifestyles: Neustadt celebrates annual wine harvest fest

    Harvest time in Germany is also wine fest time. One of the highlights of the wine fest season is the annual German Wine Harvest Fest being celebrated in Neustadt along the German Wine Street today through Oct. 11.The German Wine Harvest Fest is considered as the vintners' Thanksgiving. For more than

  • Lifestyles: German-American Day celebrated Oct. 6

    The people in Germany and the United States have important mutual, familyand cultural ties.The German-American Day taking place on Oct. 6 of each year is a day ofcommemoration in the USA. It is to remind us of Oct. 6, 1683, when 13 Germanfamilies arrived near Philadelphia and founded German-town,

  • When you steal-- you steal from us all

    There are many thrills in this world -- bungee jumping, skydiving or parachuting just to name a few. Unfortunately, some of our Kaiserslautern Military Community citizens find other ways to get a thrill ... through shoplifting. When these people shoplift at our KMC Center and succeed, they gain the

  • MXG prepares for upcoming ORI

    Sept. 10 marked the last of the 86th Maintenance Group's ability to survive and operate classes here, prior to Team Ramstein's upcoming Operational Readiness Inspection.As other squadrons across the base don chemical gear and take cover, the 86th MXG must do the same while also carrying on with

  • Lifestyles: Morbach fest highlights plums

    The annual "Latwerch fest," or plum butter fest, will take place 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday in Morbach. Visitors will be able to taste and purchase different types of fruit butter: plum butter, diet butter, apple, pear and mirabelle butter. Hella Ullinger and her helpers prepared the fruit butter