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MORE ONLINE: Visit StuttgartCitizen.com and sign up for the daily email for more timely announcements NEWS FEATURE HEALTH FUNDING SHORTFALLS CHEAP TRAVEL HEART MONTH Army Housing maintenance How to travel more Show your heart some services affected — PAGE 4. while spending less — PAGE 9. love this month — PAGE 10. CULTURE In Germany, storks are the stuff of legends — PAGE 8. Thursday, February 19, 2015 Sustaining & Supporting the Stuttgart U.S. Military Community Garrison Website: www.stuttgart.army.mil Facebook: facebook.com/USAGarrisonStuttgart stuttgartcitizen.com Carnivals make resilience fun Susanne Klaus, an instructor with the Stuttgart Laugh Yoga school, leads participants in a session of laugh yoga during the USAG Stuttgart Resiliency Carnival at Patch Fitness Center Feb. 5. Laugh yoga incorporates stretching exercises and forced laughter and smiling into a mood-lifting exercise, and was one of several comprehensive fi tness related activities during the recent Resiliency Carnivals. For the full story and more photos, see Pages 12-13. — Photo by Greg Jones, USAG Stuttgart Public Affairs Offi ce. OPINION: FAREWELL ANNOUNCEMENTS: BAZAAR ASK A JAG: TRAFFIC POINTS SAFETY: MEDICINES The USAG Stuttgart commander, Col. John P. Spring Bazaar organizers ask for community The Stuttgart Law Center explains how the Where do you keep your medicines? If you have Stack, says farewell to the Stuttgart military volunteers to help the annual shopping German traffi c points system works and how children around, make sure your medicines community — PAGE 2. extravaganza run smoothly — PAGE 7. violations can affect you — PAGE 4. stay safe — PAGE 10. Page 2 OPINION The Citizen, February 19, 2015 is newspaper is an authorized publication for members of the Department of Defense. Contents of e Citizen are not necessarily the o cial views of, or Commander bids fond farewell endorsed by, the U.S. Government, the Department of Defense or the Department of the Army. All editorial content in this publication is edited and approved for Commentary by Col. John P. Stack year through a multi-layered energy public release by the United States Army Garrison USAG Stuttgart commander Stuttgart Public A airs O ce. Advertisements and conservation plan that included utili- private organizations noted in this publication are not ties modernization projects, renewable part of Department of Defense. e past three years have easily energy project execution, and the Green been among the best in my entire ca- Boot energy conservation program. reer, and perhaps even my entire life, We also broke ground on a Panzer and long a er I’ve hung up my uni- school complex that I think will be one form and Petrina and I have settled of the greatest improvements to this gar- down to watch the grandkids grow rison for a very long time. is elemen- up, we’ll remember our time here with tary and high school complex will pro- great fondness. vide a state-of-the-art learning facility We’ve had the chance to enjoy and a perfect learning environment for travel opportunities and the diverse, our students. Opening this complex will rich culture this city has to o er. We’ve also allow a shu ing of other schools been able to go shopping in the bustling that will enable signi cant improve- downtown area of Germany’s fourth Col. JOHN P. STACK ments to those facilities as well. United States Army Garrison Stuttgart www.stuttgart.army.mil largest metropolitan area, and then Commander, USAG Stuttgart We also continually improved our www.facebook.com/USAGarrisonStuttgart just a 45-minute drive later, be in the facilities here, including remodeling Col. John P. Stack heart of the Black Forest, a national Family, Morale, Welfare and Recreation projects at both the medical and dental U.S. Army Garrison Stuttgart Commander forest that is, quite literally, the stu of Directorate who provide a wide variety clinics, expanding our vehicle registra- R. Slade Walters Director of Public A airs German legend. of support for service members and tion and inspection facility, and adding S.J. Grady And yet what’s really made this their families, to the military police and balconies to our family housing units to Command Information Chief/Managing Editor such a great assignment is the commu- re ghters overseeing the day-to-day further improve the quality of life of our Greg Jones Carola Meusel nity we’ve been a part of. It’s unlike other emergency and security operations, to families living in Army housing. Writer Writer community in the world. the many others throughout this amaz- One thing that’s critical to our op- USAG Stuttgart Public Affairs Offi ce Building 2949, Panzer Kaserne It starts with our fantastic and gra- ing sta , this team works hard to go erations in the garrison is our ability to Army Post O ce Mailing Address: cious hosts and neighbors in Stuttgart unnoticed. reach the community members with Unit 30401, APO AE 09107 and the surrounding communities. In What I mean by this is because of important and useful information. e German Mailing Address: my role as the garrison commander I their hard work, the vehicle registration improvement of our ability to reach those Panzer Kaserne, Geb. 2949, 3rd Floor, Panzerstrasse, 71032 Böblingen have an opportunity to interact with the o ce is able to handle customers in a audiences has been astounding. Telephone: +49 (0)7031-15-3105, DSN 431-3105 civic leadership of the greater Stuttgart timely manner, and Military Police are ere has been a 77 percent increase Fax: +49 (0)7031-15-3096, DSN 431-3096 Email: [email protected] area, and as a service member living in on patrol keeping our roads and com- in the use of our website, a 35 percent e appearance of advertising in this publication, Germany, I get to interact with Germans munities safe. e gyms open on time increase in smartphone engagement and including inserts or supplements, does not constitute on a daily basis, much like the rest of this in the early hours of the morning, and a 66 percent growth in our social me- endorsement of the products or services advertised by the U.S. Army or the U.S. Department of Defense. military community. In the few years I’ve hundreds of working families have child dia subscription rate. Most impressive Everything advertised in this publication shall be made available for purchase, use or patronage without regard been here, they have never made me feel care. All of these day-to-day things go though, is the 650 percent increase in so- to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, physical handicap, political a liation or any like an outsider or visitor, but more as a unnoticed unless there is some sort of cial media engagement and the four-fold other non-merit factor of the purchaser, user or patron. If a violation or rejection of this equal opportunity neighbor, a fellow community member, challenge. growth of our daily email subscribers. policy by an advertiser is con rmed, the printer shall almost a family member. Making things go smoothly so that Truly, we are keeping this community refuse to print advertising from that source until the violation is corrected. e host nation community here is the customer is not aware of what’s going informed like never before. warm and welcoming, and enthusiasti- on in the background is only achieved I could continue on detailing the Publisher: cally supportive of our military com- through dedication and professional- great things this community has accom- munity. From cooperative e orts like ism. So, the next time you don’t notice a plished, but most of you reading this the improved heating plant project, to wait at vehicle registration, the next time already know what a great community the absolutely vital host nation employ- you don’t see a car speeding through this is, populated by great people. ees among our ranks, to the day-to-day housing, or the next time your morning I want to close by reiterating that it AdvantiPro GmbH business of supporting a 22,000-plus routine includes hitting the gym early, is not the on-post facilities, or the great www.advantipro.com Telephone: +49 (0) 631-30 3355 30 military community, this garrison and you can thank a garrison team member, sites and communities outside the gate e Citizen is a biweekly o set press publication the tenant units it supports couldn’t ask because they make that possible. that have made this a great assignment. published by AdvantiPro GmbH and printed by Oggersheimer Druckzentrum. Circulation is 7,000 for more engaged and supportive hosts. But there’s so much more to what Nor it is the great things we have ac- copies. On post, we enjoy a vibrant joint we’ve all been able to do together as a complished together, though that is also Handelsregister: Zweibrücken, HRB 1824 Z services community. One of only two team. Our German partners, our ten- something I will take with me forever. Gerichtsstand Kaiserslautern Ust-IdNr.: DE 229812354 military installations with two combat- ant units and the amazing garrison It’s simply the people that make up John ompson ant commands, U.S. Army Garrison workforce here have put their shoulders this community. From our host nation Managing Director Stuttgart also supports a number of together and pulled this community neighbors and friends, to the service Newspaper Layout/Designer other diverse and crucial organizations. through some major accomplishments. members, civilians and families of this Alexander Pütz Dipl. Designer (FH/University of applied sciences) ese tenant units are actively engaged e garrison won the Army joint community, to the hard-working Display Advertising Contact in critical missions for our nation every Communities of Excellence Most garrison workforce; it is all of you who Jaqueline Samad Telephone: +49 (0) 631-30 3355 37 day, and the pace of operations rarely Improved award in 2014 for a variety have made this such a great assignment.