Former Marine Kurt Garcia is no different than many of his
contemporaries. In his almost 28 years of military service, he made 13
permanent change of station moves, served in the U.S., Asia and Europe,
endured numerous long separations from his family, and underwent
intense, physically challenging training.  

But he can’t transfer his Post 9/11 GI Bill benefits to his 12-year-old son, Dominic, or his 10-year-old daughter, Gabrielle.Read More

It was a bitter cold evening in Prague, Czech Republic. On the main
entrance steps of the Military Church of St. John of Nepomuk, three
members of the Czech army guard of honor stood stoically on each side
of the door with rifles and fixed bayonets. The Prague Castle Guard
regimental band brass sextet — which normally only plays for state
ceremonial events — added to the formal ambiance.Read More

Headquarters, U.S. European Command, recognized its top service members
and civilian employees of 2010 in a ceremony held Feb. 10 on Patch
Barracks

Rear Adm. Charles W. Martoglio, EUCOM chief of staff, praised the 15
service member nominees and 22 civilian nominees in front of their
co-workers, friends and family inside a packed Patch Community Club.
Martoglio praised the nominees for providing quality support to the
Department of Defense during a critical period for the U.S.

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Being fit is more than just lifting weights.

In fact, a person’s total fitness includes their emotions,
spirituality, and the ways in which they interact with their family and
friends, according to the Department of the Army. That’s why the DA
designed the Comprehensive Soldier Fitness program: to measure the
overall fitness of Soldiers, family members and DA civilians in the
areas of physical, social, family, emotional and spiritual fitness.Read More

Bewildered and struggling to pay down debt, Spc. Lakeshia Dennis fell
behind in her rent last fall and wasn’t sure where to turn for
assistance in regaining her financial footing.

Dennis, assigned to the 554th Military Police Company, found help
through Army Emergency Relief. AER provides emergency financial
assistance to active duty and retired Soldiers, their family members,
surviving spouses and orphans.Read More

Dr. Emmitt L. Brown, the scientist from the movie “Back to the Future,”
had things fairly well devised several years ago, feeding trash to the
“flux capacitor” to power his time machine. Read More

On the same day that President Obama outlined his Better Building
Initiative that aims to reduce companies’ energy bills by about $40
billion a year, U.S. Army Garrison Stuttgart hosted its second annual
energy symposium.

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Q: I’ve recently heard stories
about service members who were overcharged on their mortgages or had
their homes foreclosed on, despite legal protections that exist. What
are those protections?Read More

Certain U.S. electronic devices can disrupt communications in Germany
and may result in legal proceedings and fines for those who use them.

Devices that can cause harmful interference operate on the 800-900
kilohertz (kHz) and 1.8-2.4 gigahertz (GHz) frequency ranges, along with
some 4G wireless technology, according to John Whitehurst, a spectrum
supportability manager for U.S. European Command J6 in Stuttgart.Read More

The Army has a bold vision for managing natural resources on its
installations: It will become net zero. That is, our use and production
of resources will balance out so that we do not over-consume or waste.
The most exciting part of the Army net zero vision is this: we all have a
part to play in achieving it.

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In Iraq and Afghanistan, Soldiers will place themselves in danger to
protect a comrade in harm’s way. We need to apply that same instinct at
our home stations and provide aid to a Soldier in the fight against
sexual assault.Read More

Even with multiple operations occurring around the world — in combat
zones and international partner training situations — the service
members of U.S. Special Operations Command Europe found time to pause
momentarily Jan. 19 to celebrate their history.Read More

Four members of the 1st Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group
(Airborne), received awards during a ceremony held in Panzer Hall Jan.
19 for their valorous actions over the course of their last deployment
to Afghanistan in support of International Security Assistance Forces
Special Operations Forces and Task Force 10.Read More

Like it or not, it’s tax time.

If you’re trying to make sense of what’s new for this filing season, fear not. We’ve already done it for you. Read More

Siblings Sasha (from left) and Susanna Ortiz battle to win the Böblingen Elementary/Middle School Spelling Bee Jan. 21, while announcer Helene Harper listens for the correct answer. Susanna, 12, took first place and will represent Stuttgart in the Germany-wide spelling bee in Ramstein.

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