Beginning April 25, applicants for Army jobs in Stuttgart should apply
online through USA Jobs and not the Army Resume builder at Civilian
Personnel Online.

The transition from the Army’s hiring software, Resumix, to another
automated recruitment tool, the Office of Personnel Management’s USA
Staffing, has begun and will be completed in Europe by April 30.Read More

Medical/Dental Issue: Defense Department Civilian with Exceptional Family Member Scope: Current Defense Department Policy 1315.19 allows DOD civilians an option to bring their family members outside the continental U.S. regardless of gaining installation’s ability to support family member’s special needs. Family members needing care bring undue stress and strain toRead More

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