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...assault was the most serious on American uniformed personnel in West Germany since a car bomb injured 20 people at Ramstein Air Base, the Air Force's European headquarters, in 1981. President Reagan was awakened at 6 a.m. and told of the bombing. Later a White House spokesman condemned it as a "shameful act." West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl sent Reagan assurances that quick action would be taken "to cast light on the deed...
...that is largely hidden, grinding on almost entirely out of view of television cameras and press conferences. While the Pentagon names each dead soldier, few details are released of those injured, and no photographer is permitted on the tarmac when the casualties from Iraq are unloaded at Ramstein Air Base near Landstuhl. For these soldiers, Landstuhl is a brief hiatus, perhaps a week or two before they are dispatched home or returned to the war. Here, they are neither liberators nor occupiers, neither vilified nor celebrated. They are simply patients, struggling to come to grips with their wounds...
...Marine who was reported kidnapped in Iraq; in Beirut. The Lebanese-born Muslim, who disappeared from his base near Fallujah on June 20, was seen blindfolded in a videotape and at one point was reported to have been beheaded. After resurfacing in Beirut, he was shipped to Ramstein air base in Germany for debriefing and medical evaluation. The Navy is investigating the possibility that his apparent kidnapping arose from an attempt at desertion...
...down depending on requirements - which may not prove the economic windfall that politicians there are anticipating. "Things will be happening in 2004," Feith told Time. "Expectations that people are going to see extremely large decisions, extremely quickly, are probably overblown. There aren't going to be any new Ramsteins in Eastern Europe," a reference to the huge airbase in Germany. Large decisions may not be imminent, but they are coming. Rumsfeld, Feith and others continue to argue for faster, leaner, more agile American forces whose purpose, as Feith told reporters in Europe last month, "is to project power into theaters...
Last week Marc's body, along with those of seven other American soldiers, was flown from Afghanistan to Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany before coming home for those proud, sad ceremonies that mark the death of young men in battle. The Army had once more been asked to live up to the promise it makes to those who serve. "We don't leave Americans behind," says Brigadier General John Rosa Jr., deputy director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Last week that word was kept. But the price for doing so was high...