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  • 'Making it happen all over the world'

    Two members of the 379th Expeditionary Maintenance Group unit deployment manager office have a big task -- to move the 1,100 people assigned to the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing's largest group in, around and out of the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. "We are responsible for people in

  • XP turns plans into exercise readiness

    Joint servicemembers, coalition partners, contractors and transient personnel trained with 379th Air Expeditionary Wing Airmen in a Base Defense Exercise here April 8. Many also participated in the Major Accident Response Exercise later that afternoon. "This was our first attempt at doing a BDE and

  • Aerial port Airmen keep personnel, mission moving

    With as many as 30,000 passengers and as much as 10,000 tons of cargo coming through the base on a monthly basis, the 8th Expeditionary Air Mobility Squadron's aerial port operators are kept busy 24-hours a day. The squadron is part of the 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing at Ramstein Air Base,

  • Fuels lab keeps mission flowing smoothly

    The last thing a pilot probably worries about as they get ready for a mission is the quality of the jet fuel or liquid oxygen they will be using on the sortie. But for three Department of Defense civilians here, it's all they think about.The Air Force Petroleum Agency lab here is responsible for

  • BEEs busy keeping base buzzing

    These BEEs aren't as concerned with honey as they are the chemicals which could potentially be found on base. While the 379th Medical Group bioenvironmental engineering (BEE) flight is responsible for many things, their primary concern here is the base water supply."In the deployed environment,