• Chaplain corps offers confidential counseling

    Chaplains’ offices are a safe space. Chaplains have a higher level of confidentiality and are not allowed to share private conversations held in counseling sessions, and as a spiritual advisor, ensuring everyone’s right to confidential counseling.

  • Operation Grace Delivery: volunteers deliver food to quarantined

    Over the last six weeks, the Southside Chapel on Ramstein Air Base was full of volunteers cooking, laughing and getting to know each other as meals like lasagna, rice and shrimp and enchiladas were prepared. As Operation Grace Delivery winds down, more than 380 meals were delivered.

  • Keeping traditions alive during the ‘new normal’

    U.S. Air Force Maj. Sarah Schechter, 86th Airlift Wing staff chaplain, tests communication capabilities in her home in Kaiserslautern, Germany, April 8, 2020. Schechter and her family hosted a virtual Passover Seder from their home to maintain physical distancing protocols while performing the 3,000

  • Airmen Johnson, Johnson, and Johnson honored as Airlifters of the Week

    Three Airmen assigned to the 86th Airlift Wing Chapel received the honor of being Ramstein’s Airlifters of the Week, Jan. 17.The 86th AW Commander, Brig. Gen. Mark R. August, recognized Capt. Alex Johnson, 86th AW chaplain, Master Sgt. Norma Johnson, 86th AW readiness and training flight chief and

  • KMC unites for national prayer breakfast

    Military and civilian members from around the Kaiserslautern Military Community gathered at the Ramstein Officer’s Club early in the morning March 13, to celebrate more than 200 years of religious freedom.

  • Ramstein celebrates Hanukkah

    The Jewish community of Ramstein Air Base is celebrating the holiday season with an assortment of festivities this year.

  • Chaplain disarms her pain: A person doesn’t have to be good to be loved

    “I actually carried a knife to school in my backpack. I called it my ‘deterrence weapon.’” For many American school age children, remembering to pack a knife alongside your homework isn’t a thought; however, for Chaplain (Col.) Donnette Boyd, wing chaplain of the 86th Airlift Wing, it was part of a

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