Kaiserslautern American, September 7, 2018

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Ramstein 6 Days Bazaar until the bazaar! Ramstein Air Base Hangars 1 & 2 and the Giant Tent

13-16 September

www.RamsteinBazaar.org

September 7, 2018 | Volume 42, Number 36

NEWS

521st AMOW celebrates 10th anniversary, Page 7

FEATURE

Women’s efforts recognized, celebrated during Women’s Equality Day, Page 10

LIFESTYLE

World’s biggest wine fest takes place Sept. 7 to 17, Page 14

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Ramstein Airmen conduct SERE training in Romania Story and photos by Senior Airman Devin Boyer 86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs BOLOVANI, Romania — Downed pilots navigate through dense woods swatting away spiderwebs as they make their way to a safe location. With a compass and some training, they emerge from the timber to find themselves in an open field of tall yellow grass. The team works together to contact fellow Airmen piloting C-130Js in the area in hopes to be found from the sky. Survival, Evasion, Rescue, and Escape specialists conducted training with 37th Airlift Squadron and Romanian air force pilots during Carpathian Summer 2018, a bilateral training exercise designed to enhance interoperability and readiness of forces by conducting com-

bined air operations with the Romanian air force. “Our purpose today is to work interoperable training with the Romanian rescue forces,” said Senior Master Sgt. Matthew Canoy, U.S. Air Forces in Europe Air Forces Africa SERE functional manager. “We put survivors on the ground, they communicate with their wingmen, and then they pass the information to the Romanians to get rescued.” As the pilots rummage through their gear, they pull out a three-inch by five-inch mirror and a radio. As a facepainted pilot dials in a frequency to make communications, another takes the mirror and makes her way out to the field, the only spot within a two kilometer radius beaming with sunlight. See SERE TRAINING, Page 2

U.S. Air Force Capt. Jane Marlow, 37th Airlift Squadron pilot, configures a radio during a survival, evasion, rescue, and escape scenario in Bolovani, Romania, Aug. 24. Marlow and her fellow pilots had to navigate through woods and foliage before contacting Romanian air force pilots to “rescue” them. The training was part of Carpathian Summer 2018, a bilateral training exercise designed to enhance interoperability and readiness of forces by conducting combined air operations with the Romanian air force.

AFMS History: Air Force dentists responded to 1981 explosion at Ramstein Air Base by Kevin M. Hymel Air Force Medical Service History Office Two bombs exploded in a parking lot outside the U.S. Air Forces in Europe headquarters building at Ramstein Air Base, Aug. 31, 1981, injuring 15 people. When they heard the blasts, Air Force dentists and their staff ran out to help. The bombs, placed in cars by anti-American terrorist group, the Red Army, deto-

nated early in the morning, shattering windows, starting fires, and damaging partitions, interior walls, equipment, and furniture in the headquarters. One blast blew a car hood over a five-story building. Within seconds, two dental officers and four enlisted staff rushed to the site from the dental clinic located across the street from the blast. While one officer searched the parkSee AFMS HISTORY, Page 6

Blown out windows, damaged cars and the torn up entrance to the U.S. Air Force Europe headquarters are the result of a bombing at Ramstein Air Base by the Red Army terrorist group, Aug. 31, 1981. Air Force dentists treated 15 people wounded in the attack. U.S. Air Force photo


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