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  • Travel Medicine Clinic ‘first aid’ when traveling abroad

    Sabers venturing outside Germany can help solidify a safe and healthy vacation by visiting the 52nd Aerospace Medical Squadron Travel Medicine Clinic before leaving town. When traveling internationally, conditions both natural and man-made may be significantly different from those in Germany and may

  • Travel through the eyes of the volcanic Eifel

    Nearly 2,000 years ago, a lonely wanderer reached the shoreline of the Weinfelder Maar crater lake. The water was dark and deathly still. The wanderer was Pontius Pilatus, the man who condemned Jesus. In despair, Pilatus threw himself into the deep water of the crater lake and drowned. Near the

  • Dutch provide EUCOM valuable training resource

    The Royal Netherlands Military provide valuable altitude chamber training for members of the U.S. European Command."This is the only non-U.S. facility where U.S. personnel do aerospace physiology training," said Capt. Ross Canup, 86th Aerospace Medicine Squadron aerospace and operational physiology

  • Pentagon Car Sales sponsors new BMW's for AADD

    Sometimes Airmen end up in situations where they drive somewhere, consume alcohol and end up leaving their vehicles stranded until they're sober enough to retrieve them. Airmen Against Drunk Driving and Pentagon Car Sales have come up with a plan help these Airmen.About three months ago, Pentagon

  • New PT standards: my quest to cut the gut

    Homer Simpson, Peter Griffin and Doug Heffernan all have something in common - they're all obese men who carry a lot of weight in their mid sections.They have what's called visceral fat. I do too. Visceral fat is what causes your stomach to feel hard like muscle, even though you're still fat. That

  • Enjoy the summer festival season

    Summer is a busy season around Spangdahlem Air Base and the Eifel. Take some time to get familiar with the region and its customs by attending some of the following activities this summer.The wine town of Traben-Trarbach will host its annual Moselwein festival, offering wine sampling July 9-12.An

  • Annual Flying Hour Program

    Have you ever tried to plan out your life in complete detail day by day for a whole year? "I think on January 15, 2011, I will do my third oil change on my car since I will have driven 15,000 miles up to that point."Have you ever wondered why we fly so much or so little at times? Here is a little

  • Binsfeld invites to annual German-American Friendship Run

    The community of Binsfeld values the friendship it has with its American neighbors. Many friendships have developed across decades between the base and the community. That's why members of the Binsfeld sports association developed the idea of hosting a sports event incorporating Germans and

  • Meet the guys of Five Finger Death Punch

    The heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch played a free show for about 500 military members, friends and family members here at the Skelton Memorial Fitness Center June 10, just days after playing at Rock-am-Ring, one of Germany's largest music festivals.I had just returned from a week of camping

  • Out and about in June

    Participate in and register now for the seventh German-American Friendship run in Binsfeld June 27. A limited number of free T-Shirts will be given away for early registration. To register ,email lauf-binsfeld@web.de or call 06575-610. For more information go to www.sv-binsfeld.de . Also read an