Kaiserslautern American, Dec. 06, 2013

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DECEMBER 6, 2013

HAVE YOU READ YOUR KA TODAY?

Volume 37, number 48

Around-the-clock fitness at Ramstein Story and photo by Senior Airman Damon Kasberg 86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs The Air Force mission runs 24 hours a day, but not every base service does the same. That is about to change as the Ramstein Northside Fitness Center plans to modify its hours. Starting Jan. 1, the fitness center will be open from 4 a.m. Monday to midnight Friday. “The Air Force started an initiative about a year ago to have fitness centers open 24/7,” said Maj. Michelle Tarkowski, 786th Force Support Squadron commander. “Unfortunately, we haven’t received the funding yet to implement that fitness access program, but we had a lot of customers in Ramstein and the KMC who expressed Airmen enter the Ramstein Northside Fitness Center Nov. 26. Starting Jan. 1, the Northside Fitness Center will be available to service members and other ID card holders from 4 a.m. Monday to midnight Friday.

See FITNESS, Page 3

German, US military police share ideas

While in uniform, service members can not stand or walk with their hands in their pockets except to insert or remove an item.

Lt. Col. George Brown, U.S. Army Garrison RheinlandPfalz’s emergency services director, briefs visiting German military police soldiers at the garrison’s new fire alarm control center at Rhine Ordnance Barracks.

LIFESTYLES

Tip of the Week

See POLICE, Page 2

NEWS

Capt. Daniel McCarey is posted to Germany, yet rarely sees fellow American Soldiers. McCarey, a U.S. exchange officer at the German Armed Forces’ military police command in Hannover, Germany, recently brought 27 German military police troops to U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz, where they met with U.S. military police, criminal investigators and detention specialists. The three-day visit served as an efficient way for allies to interact and learn from each other. “There is not a lot of American contact in German life,” said McCarey, who grew up bilingual as a son of a German mother and a U.S. Army Soldier. “I think it gives them a good idea of what Americans do.”

McCarey, who is five months into a twoyear assignment working with the German MPs, last served in Stuttgart in 2007. He was raised in Germany and attended German schools, so he’s comfortable in his current role. Still, it’s much different than a regular overseas assignment. “It’s crazy, because you don’t work with any Americans on a day-to-day basis,” McCarey said. “I am not on a U.S. base; there is no PX, no commissary, no APO box.” A good partnership program is based upon the evaluation of the partner unit’s practices, which can be adopted to the organization’s

FEATURES

Story and photo by Ina Franzreb U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz

Angel Tree provides joy for KMC families, Page 8

Service members can send holiday messages, Page 18

Sankt Wendel Christmas market, Page 26


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