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By JENNIFER H. SVAN | STARS AND STRIPES Published: May 1, 2021 Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. WIESBADEN, Germany — Some U.S. military personnel and their families used the extra time at home during more than a year of coronavirus restrictions to hit the books. This year, 1,360 students received diplomas from the University of Maryland Global Campus Europe – about 200 more graduates than ...

By JENNIFER H. SVAN | STARS AND STRIPES Published: May 1, 2021 Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. WIESBADEN, Germany – Some U.S. military personnel and their families used the extra time at home during more than a year of coronavirus restrictions to hit the books. This year, 1,360 students received diplomas from the University of Maryland Global Campus Europe – about 200 more graduates than ...

10 This isn’t your father’s rapid runway repair. Eight Airmen from the 169th Civil Engineer Squadron (169CES) joined Pacific Air Forces and U.S. Navy engineers to participate in an Expedient and Expeditionary Airfield Damage Repair (E-ADR) Joint Capability Technology Demonstration at McEntire Joint National Guard Base (JNGB), South Carolina April 21-28, 2021. The demonstration simulated the rapid repair of a battle damaged runway. Swamp Fox engineers were joined by engineers from the 36th Engineer Squadron, Anderson Air Force Base, Guam, and the 647th Civil Engineer Squadr...

Date Time JBER debuts innovation project during Polar Force 21-5 Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Airmen implemented innovation project URSUS to speed up the deployment process during exercise Polar Force 21-5, March 29 through April 2. The team, which was led by Capt. Jamey Shuls, 773rd Logistics Readiness Squadron director of operations, designed and conceptualized URSUS in partnership with the air staff’s Tesseract innovation team and The collaboration between JB Elmendorf-Richardson Airmen, Tesseract, and the AFRL directorate was the first of its kind. This partnership demonstrates prom...

19 MCGHEE TYSON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Tenn. -- Fifteen staff and faculty assigned to the I.G. Brown Training and Education Center in East Tennessee recently completed a 60-day fitness challenge to enhance their wellness and prepare for approaching U.S. Air Force physical fitness assessments. “The objective was two-fold: to help participants kick start a complete and healthy wellness transformation and to help prepare our members physically for the PT test projected to resume in July,” said U.S. Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Juan P Castro, the enlisted professional milita...