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June 30, 2009
STUTTGART, Germany - Adm. James G. Stavridis became the 15th U.S. European Command (USEUCOM) commander during a change of command ceremony at Patch Barracks here June 30.
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June 26, 2009
STUTTGART, Germany - German health officials have confirmed that a member of the U.S. military community in Stuttgart contracted the Novel A (H1N1) influenza virus. The individual confirmed as ill with the virus is a childcare provider employed at the Patch Barracks Child Development Center (CDC).
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June 26, 2009
ROYAL AIR FORCE MILDENHALL, England - An international rescue effort is currently en route to a ship in the Atlantic approximately 700 miles off the west coast of Ireland. A crew member on board container ship "Pascha" has fallen seriously ill and needs urgent medical attention.
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June 25, 2009
STUTTGART, Germany - The United States European Command (USEUCOM) will host a Change of Command Ceremony between Army Gen. John Craddock and Navy Adm. James G. Stavridis at Husky Field on Patch Barracks, Stuttgart, Germany, June 30 at 10 a.m.
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June 22, 2009
KIEL, Germany — Sailors aboard amphibious command and control ship USS Mount Whitney (LCC/JCC 20) were treated to a special concert June 20 as the band Queensryche rocked the flight deck during the ship's port visit to Kiel, Germany.
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June 19, 2009
LE BOURGET AIRPORT, France - An HH-60 Pave Hawk rescue helicopter with 14 crewmembers consisting of two pilots, three aerial gunners, two flight engineers and seven maintainers arrived at Le Bourget Airport outside of Paris, France to take part in the 2009 Paris Air Show June 15-21.
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June 19, 2009
MIHAIL KOGALNICEANU, Romania - A team of Romanian Army engineers and U.S. Navy Seabees from Joint Task Force-East attended a dedication ceremony June 11, 2009 for a fence project they completed at one of the local kindergartens here.
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June 19, 2009
USS MOUNT WHITNEY, Baltic Sea - Crew members of amphibious command and control ship USS Mount Whitney (LCC/JCC 20) competed in a joint marksmanship competition with Finnish sailors June 16.
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June 19, 2009
USS MOUNT WHITNEY, Baltic Sea - Mine Countermeasure (MCM) ships participating in Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) exercise 2009 located several mines and a torpedo June 8-18 while conducting underway operations.
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June 19, 2009
NAPLES, Italy — Maritime forces from four countries began participation in annual exercise FRUKUS this year in the Bay of Biscay off the coast of Brest, France June 19.
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June 19, 2009
USS Mount Whitney, Baltic Sea - The 37th annual Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) exercise 2009 concluded June 19 after 14 days of multinational operations in the Baltic Sea.
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June 19, 2009
KIEL, Germany - USS Mount Whitney (LCC/JCC 20) was among the 26 ships that pulled into the northern German city of Kiel June 19 after the successful completion of Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) exercise 2009.
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June 19, 2009
USS MOUNT WHITNEY, Baltic Sea - More than 30 ships from 12 nations completed the last tactical exercise of Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) exercise June 18.
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June 19, 2009
BODRUM, Turkey - USS Stout (DDG 55) arrived in Bodrum, Turkey, June 16.
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June 18, 2009
LE BOURGET AIRPORT, France - A super cargo C-130J Hercules aircraft and eight of its pilots and crew members arrived at Le Bourget Airport outside of Paris, France to take part in the 2009 Paris Air Show June 15-21.
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June 17, 2009
STUTTGART, Germany -As states take on more than one country in the National Guard State Partnership Program, an amazing thing is happening: The old partner is offering to share its experiences with the new partner.
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June 17, 2009
TIRANA, Albania - U.S. European Command (EUCOM) held its annual humanitarian assistance conference June 2-5, 2009 bringing together civilian and military delegates responsible for carrying out humanitarian assistance projects within the EUCOM area of responsibility.
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June 17, 2009
USS MOUNT WHITNEY, Baltic Sea - Finnish naval forces performed a visit, board, search and seizure (VBSS) training scenario aboard USS Mount Whitney (LCC/JCC 20) during Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) exercise 2009, June 15.
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June 17, 2009
HMS ST. ALBANS, Baltic Sea - British Royal Navy ship HMS St. Albans (F 83) conducted joint rescue assistance training June 11 with U.S. sailors during Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) exercise 2009.
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June 17, 2009
USS MOUNT WHITNEY, Baltic Sea — USS Mount Whitney (LCC/JCC 20) completed an underway replenishment (UNREP) without incident June 12 while deployed for Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) exercise 2009.
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June 16, 2009
SIGONELLA, Sicily - Naval Air Station (NAS) Sigonella kicked off a celebration June 12 to commemorate 50 years of cooperation and friendship between the U.S. Navy, Italy and the Italian Air Force 41st Stormo.
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June 16, 2009
STUTTGART, Germany - Lessons learned from domestic Counterdrug operations help the National Guard use its State Partnership Program to assist foreign partners tackling illegal narcotics in their countries.
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June 16, 2009
LE BOURGET AIRPORT, France - Fifteen different Department of Defense aircraft arrived at Le Bourget Airport north of Paris, France in preparation for the June 15 start of the week long 100th Anniversary International Paris Air Show. A variety of military aircraft and advanced airborne weapons systems originating from active duty, National Guard and reserve units finished final preparations before Monday's kickoff.
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June 15, 2009
PARIS, France - A congressional delegation of six senators and Secretary of the Air Force Michael B. Donley arrived in Paris June 13, 2009, to partake in a wreath laying ceremony at the Memorial de l'Escadrille Lafayette, in Marnes-la-Coquette, just outside Paris, France. They are also here to show their support for the Paris Air Show.
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June 15, 2009
HEIDELBERG, Germany - The World Health Organization decision to declare the novel H1N1 influenza outbreak has reached pandemic levels June 11 has no immediate impact on health care operations in the Europe Regional Medical Command, according to leading health experts.
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June 15, 2009
USS MOUNT WHITNEY, Baltic Sea - A Swedish Navy ship operating in the Baltic Sea June 10 discovered evidence of a mine line while participating in Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) exercise 2009.
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June 15, 2009
BRUSSELS, Belgium - With NATO defense ministers having agreed to reduce the alliance's military presence in Kosovo from 14,000 to 10,000 troops by the year's end, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates June 11, urged that the reduction take place as an organized process.
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June 15, 2009
STUTTGART, Germany - The U.S. European Command kicked-off the bi-annual State Partnership Program (SPP) Conference here June 15. The three-day conference will highlight many new initiatives to include SPP partners co-deploying to Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in Afghanistan, and include interactive workshops that transform SPP to the next level to ensure it provides comprehensive support for EUCOM's Strategy of Active Security. This transformation includes integrating state agencies to full-spectrum engagements to enhance civil security and increased partner capacity building efforts.
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June 15, 2009
FGS ELBE, Baltic Sea - A German auxiliary repair ship, one of 10 German units, provides support to more than 40 allied ships participating in Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) exercise 2009, June 11.
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June 15, 2009
NORMANDY, France — Thirteen D-Day veterans from the 29th Infantry Division came here to take part in June 6 events marking the 65th anniversary of the Normandy invasion.
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June 15, 2009
STUTTGART, Germany -The National Guard's State Partnership Program started as a confidence building measure between formerly hostile nations and has grown into solid long-standing alliances, the chief of the National Guard Bureau told conference participants here June 15, 2009.
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June 11, 2009
Public health professionals at the Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine advise that summer is a good time to get ready for this year's fall and winter flu season.
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June 11, 2009
POINTE DU HOC, France - It was beautiful day. The sun was beginning to peek through the clouds. The waves crashed against the side of breathtaking cliffs as seagulls gently glided through the air. It is a peaceful place now, in June 2009, but the pockmarked grounds and shattered concrete testify to the battle that raged here in 1944.
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June 11, 2009
SAINTE MERE EGLISE, France - With his plane engulfed in flames after being hit by German anti-aircraft fire, Ralph Manley jumped out at an altitude of 200 feet and managed to deploy his chute and touch down on the Normandy beaches near Caen, France. That was 65 years ago. The veteran of the 101st Airborne Division's 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment returned to France this month to take part in events commemorating the 65th anniversary of D-Day and was the only D-Day veteran to jump in Normandy again this year.
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June 10, 2009
HEIDELBERG, Germany - Four "probable"; cases of novel H1N1 influenza have now been confirmed positive among a small group of patients at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, bringing to six the number of confirmed cases there since June 4.
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June 10, 2009
WADEBRIDGE, United Kingdom - Joint Maritime Facility (JMF) St. Mawgan, United Kingdom, joined local citizens of Cornwall, England, June 4-6 to celebrate the U.K.'s premier agricultural event the 2009 Royal Cornwall Show, marking the last major community relations project for the installation prior to disestablishment.
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June 9, 2009
COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France - Sailors assigned to the guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) took their places alongside veterans and heads of state June 6, during a ceremony commemorating the 65th Anniversary of the D-Day invasion at the American Cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach.
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June 8, 2009
NORMANDY, France - June 6, 1944, has been called the Longest Day. The largest amphibious invasion in history, code name Operation Overlord, consisted of approximately 154,000 British, Canadian, and American troops. That number includes 23,000 paratroopers who came in via glider or parachute, 5, 000 ships, and 11,000 aircraft.
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June 8, 2009
CARENTAN, France - A tranquil slab of marble with several bouquets of flowers at its base stood in the evening shadows June 5 on a piece of earth that 65 years earlier was the scene of some of the bloodiest fighting on the soil of France during World War II.
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June 8, 2009
HEMEVEZ, France - Service members from the United States, alongside French and German soldiers and residents of this small village in Normandy gathered in a local churchyard June 5 to pay their respects to seven soldiers who were executed by German troops on D-Day.
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June 8, 2009
SAINTE MERE EGLISE, France - After a well-deserved tribute at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial at Omaha Beach June 6, attended by four heads of state, the veterans of D-Day were honored again June 7. This tribute, however, was organized by and held in the town of Sainte Mere Eglise, the first town liberated by Allied forces on D-Day.
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June 8, 2009
KARLSKRONA, Sweden -Hundreds of sailors from 12 nations participated in a harbor party here June 6 to encourage camaraderie before the initial phase of Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) Exercise 2009.
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June 8, 2009
STUTTGART-VAIHINGEN, Germany - The U.S. European Command (USEUCOM) unveiled the new Joint Exercise, Simulation and Training Conference Center (JEST-CC) during a ribbon cutting ceremony here June 8.
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June 7, 2009
LANDSTUHL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER, Germany -The Commander in Chief focused his attention on Wounded Warriors during a June 5 visit to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center.
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June 7, 2009
NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL, France - U.S. President Barack Obama, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Prince Charles of Wales, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper spoke here today at a ceremony honoring the servicemembers who fought and died during the allied invasion of Normandy 65 years ago.
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June 7, 2009
NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL, France -- For nearly a week Department of Defense civilians and servicemembers from the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines have been deployed to the small French town of Sainte Mere Eglise and this memorial beside Omaha Beach supporting events in honor of the 65th anniversary of D-Day.
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June 6, 2009
AMFREVILLE, France - At the top of a small hill here there is a 15-foot-tall concrete memorial framed on each side by the American and French flags. On the face of the memorial is a life-sized image carved in stone of a U.S. Army paratrooper descending from the sky.
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June 6, 2009
KARLSKRONA, Sweden - The Swedish navy's top admiral hosted officers from 12 countries at a reception before the initial phase of Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) Exercise 2009 here June 5.
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June 5, 2009
GOURBESVILLE, France - In the days before the landings at Normandy on June 6, 1944, the small town of Gourbesville was the site of a German aid station. In the days following the allied invasion the town and others like it in the surrounding countryside became the scene of intense fighting as the U.S. Army moved eastward deeper into France.
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June 5, 2009
BRUSSELS, Belgium - June 6 is a particularly memorable day in U.S. military history. This year, it marks the 65th anniversary of the Normandy invasion and the start of the liberation of western Europe.
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June 5, 2009
Two cases of the H1N1 Influenza Virus were confirmed Thursday by the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center Infectious Disease Laboratory and four more cases are "probable."
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June 5, 2009
KARLSKRONA, Sweden - Maritime forces from 12 countries will participate in the largest multinational naval exercise this year in the Baltic Sea, June 8 through the 19th.
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June 5, 2009
NORMANDY, France - Coast Guard veteran Tommy Harbour returned to the site June 4, 2009, where he made three trips in PA33-4 delivering troops and equipment during the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944. Harbour was a Coast Guard coxswain mate, whose vehicle and personnel landing craft (LCVP), also known as a Higgins boat, transported soldiers to Omaha Beach as well as Utah Beach during WWII.
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June 4, 2009
SAINTE MERE EGLISE, France -Although sun and waves come together to create a serene picture of Sainte Mere Eglise today, it was once the site of one of the bloodiest battles in history.
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June 4, 2009
NORMANDY, France - Three soldiers and career-long friends got the rare opportunity to relive the past in a unique way June 2 while the trio is here supporting the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of D-Day.
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June 4, 2009
SAINTE MERE EGLISE, France - Maurice Lancelot is not an American soldier, but he is dressed like one.
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June 4, 2009
ROYAL AIR FORCE MILDENHALL, England - A group of veterans, college students and faculty members were joined by members of the 100th Air Refueling Wing at Thorpe Abbots June 1 to honor the heroes of World War II, particularly those who participated in the Allied invasion of Normandy on D-Day.
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June 4, 2009
SAINTE MERE EGLISE, France - Families in and around Sainte Mere Eglise volunteered to share their lives with more than 350 servicemembers from Task Force Normandy by taking small groups of the troops into their homes for dinner.
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June 4, 2009
NORMANDY, France -June 6, 1944 has been called "the longest day" The largest amphibious invasion in history, code named Operation Overlord, consisted of approximately 154,000 British, Canadian, and American troops. That number includes 23,000 paratroopers who came in via glider or parachute, 5,000 ships, and 11,000 aircraft.
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June 4, 2009
NORMANDY, France - On June 6, 65 years ago, allied forces battled side by side to liberate France. During the D-Day invasion that began that day, American, British and Canadian troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of the Normandy coast as part of the largest single-day amphibious invasion in history.
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June 4, 2009
LE MONT-SAINT-MICHEL, France — U.S. and allied service members, World War II veterans, local dignitaries and others honored the memory of those who fought in the D-Day invasion at a ceremony at the foot of famed Mont Saint Michel, June 4.
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June 3, 2009
SAINTE MERE EGLISE, France - It was the middle of the night and the town of Sainte Mere Eglise was on fire. Occupied by the Germans since June 18, 1940, the town had survived several allied air raids.
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June 3, 2009
SAINTE MERE EGLISE, France - This town loves paratroopers -- in particular, American paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne and the 101st Airborne Divisions. It was those two divisions that liberated Sainte Mere Eglise June 7, 1944, making it the first town in France to be liberated during World War II.
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June 3, 2009
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The United States and the Republic of Turkey remain steadfast allies and friends in a modern-day relationship that stretches back decades, the U.S. military's top officer said June 1.
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June 3, 2009
INCIRLIK, Turkey - Incirlik's Defense Reutilization and Marketing Office will donate about $78,000 worth of furniture to the Republic of Georgia.
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June 3, 2009
NORMANDY, France - Task Force Normandy 65 is offering limited seating in the aircraft involved in the airborne operation over Sainte Mere Eglise Sunday June 7. The operation will commemorate the Allied airborne assaults into France in the early morning of June 6, 1944.
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June 2, 2009
KLAIPEDA, Lithuania - USS Mount Whitney (LCC/JCC 20) hosted a reception for the President of Lithuania and the U.S. Ambassador to Lithuania during a three-day port visit here, June 1.
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June 1, 2009
SIGONELLA, Sicily - Members of the Naval Air Station (NAS) Sigonella Security department along with local Sicilian law-enforcement and military K-9 units came together to share techniques and training May 28.
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June 1, 2009
ROYAL AIR FORCE MILDENHALL, England - American service members stationed in the United Kingdom observed Memorial Day May 25 at Madingley American Cemetery near Cambridge.
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June 1, 2009
NORMANDY, France - When it comes time to honor the soldiers, sailors and airmen who fought and died supporting the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, 65 years ago, there will be thousands who flock to the shores of Utah Beach and Omaha Beach to pay homage to the bravery and sacrifice of these heroes.
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June 1, 2009
ROYAL AIR FORCE LAKENHEATH, England - The 48th Fighter Wing Honor Guard traveled more than 400 miles to participate in a memorial ceremony honoring fallen heroes May 25 at the Scottish-American War Memorial in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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June 1, 2009
RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany - A first-of-its-kind mobility unit comprised of airmen from 12 nations recently hosted the commander of Air Mobility Command at Papa Air Base, Hungary.
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