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  • Ramstein HAWC offers programs for the Year of the Air Force Family

    This month, the Ramstein HAWC is featured as the spotlight agency for the Year of the Air Force Family. Many personnel do not realize that the programs and services that the HAWC provides are open to any ID card holder (not just to our active duty population) and group classes do not require a

  • Reduce Miles, Perform Better?

    Every month, the KMC members who score a perfect 100 on all categories of their official Air Force Fitness Assessment are recognized with a certificate (or a letter of recognition) and their picture displayed in the base newspaper. This month we captured some valuable insights from a former

  • Ramstein comptrollers provide precision, accuracy

    The 86th Comptroller Squadron deals with more than 50,000 customers annually, but this has not stopped them from giving detailed customer service striving to make the customer happy.While the 86th CPTS goes through new changes with their hours due to the AFSO21 findings, this has not hindered their

  • 569th USFPS, German SWAT renew old bonds

    For the first time in recent memory, representatives from the Rheinland Palatinate SWAT team visited the 569th U.S. Forces Police Squadron at Kapaun Air Station Feb. 19. Herr Horst Mehlinger, director of training for the Rheinlandphalz branch of the German SWAT organization known as SEK, briefed

  • Cooking up comfort

    "Food is the most primitive form of comfort," often commented internationally acclaimed chef Julia Child on and off camera, and comfort was on the menu when a local chef donated her expertise to cook up a taste of the south for U.S. servicemembers, Feb. 25.In the back of her restaurant in

  • CE member paves way with saxophone

    Operating large construction equipment while incorporating his love for music, one pavements and construction equipment craftsman has been displaying excellence in everything he does throughout his seven years in the U.S. Air Force.Although 786th Civil Engineer Squadron Staff Sgt. Adam Will's first

  • Sembach transfer enhances dental mission

    The Sembach Annex Consolidation and Transfer plan, used to direct the necessary actions for the consolidation of functions currently located at the Sembach Annex, Germany, to other locations, has left many of the facilities on the base empty. The Area Dental Laboratory, however, is one of the few

  • Responsible Airmen lead to safeguarded IDs

    For military members, retirees and their families, Common Access Cards and dependent or retiree identification cards grant access to military installations and the services provided on them. But, what happens when an ID is lost or stolen? Not only can the security of the base be at risk, but the

  • Sensible Sports Nutrition

    If you are wearing the uniform, you are an athlete. At times our duties will demand our physical preparedness, and we are expected to uphold a professional image conducive of a military member. March is the Air Force's Nutrition Month and the new fitness AFI 36-2905 will be in full swing by  July 1,

  • Chaplain assistants provide vital service for Airmen, families

    "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ..."In May 1949, the Air Force created its own Chaplain Corps to give Airmen the ability to exercise this First Amendment freedom. While chaplains may immediately come to mind, they are only