MORE ONLINE: Visit StuttgartCitizen.com and sign up for the daily email for more timely announcements NEWS FEATURE GOING GREEN INDEPENDENCE DAY ON THE BLOTTER REDUCE EMISSIONS Celebration planned for The latest report from the Make your summer travels July 3, at Patch Barracks — PAGE 6. USAG Stuttgart blotter — PAGE 10. more eco-friendly — PAGE 4. NEAR AND DEAR Part two in our series on sites along the Neckar River — PAGE 12-13. Thursday, June 25, 2015 Sustaining & Supporting the Stuttgart U.S. Military Community Garrison Website: www.stuttgart.army.mil Facebook: facebook.com/USAGarrisonStuttgart stuttgartcitizen.com SOCEUR supports 71st D-Day commemoration Commemorating the 71st anniversary of the liberation of France, Special Operations Command Europe operators performed military free falls into the U.N.-designated world heritage site in Mont Saint-Michel, France. After a safe landing, the operator takes stock of his new location before picking up his parachute and moving in to greet the watching French crowd. — Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Will Patterson, SOCEUR Public Affairs EUCOM AFRICOM USAREUR VOLUNTEER Military leaders from across Europe and North Construction of a regional health center for Military personnel from the Latvian National Armed A Stuttgart military spouse volunteered for a medi- America met in Reykjavik, Iceland, to discuss security women began in Amoutivé, Togo, following a Forces, U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force performed cal mission in Nepal, assisting with recovery from related issues within the Arctic Circle — PAGE 8. ribbon cutting ceremony May 26 — PAGE 8. joint airborne training operations — PAGE 9. the recent devastating earthquake there — PAGE 2. Page 2 NEWS The Citizen, June 25, 2015 is newspaper is an authorized publication for members of the Department of Defense. 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Grady are less privileged.” e trip involved a lot of quick plan- Command Information Chief Special to the Citizen She turned to Google for ideas, ning. Colgate, 37, said she rst called Greg Jones Carola Meusel and came upon a project near and dear her husband, Lt. Col. Shad Colgate who Editor Writer Valerie Colgate knew she had to help to her heart: A one-week mission by works at U.S. European Command, but USAG Stuttgart Public Affairs Offi ce Building 2949, Panzer Kaserne when she saw the news on TV about the International Medical Relief to provide was in the U.S. for training. Army Post O ce Mailing Address: recent earthquake in Nepal. healthcare to victims of the April 8 quake. He enthusiastically signed o on the Unit 30401, APO AE 09107 Colgate, a nursing assistant at the IMR had a trip going to Nepal May idea. German Mailing Address: Stuttgart Army Health Clinic, wasn’t 16-24. 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Europaallee 3 67657 Kaiserslautern FMWR Sports and Fitness group classes are taught by contract instructors from the USAG community. — Photo courtesy of USAG Stuttgart FMWR — See FMWR & SKIES, Page 7 The Citizen, June 25, 2015 FEATURE Page 3 SOCEUR operators support D-Day commemoration By the 352nd Special Operations Wing of France by the allies is very important for the French,” said Noel Sarrazin, In commemoration of the 71st Les Amis du Souvenir et de la Liberté anniversary of D-Day, more than 60 executive secretary. “Organizing the U.S. Special Operations Command jumps near the Mont Saint-Michel is Europe operators parachuted onto a celebration and good occasion to the historic La Fiere drop zone connect our two countries.” near Sainte Mere Eglise, Normandy, Each SOCEUR paratrooper who France, June 7, 2015. participated spoke to the beauty and Among those 60 were 26 op- signi cance of such an opportunity. erators from Special Operations For one air commando in particu- Command Europe including 13 from lar, jumping into one of Normandy’s Stuttgart-based units: Army 10th most historic locations held a deep, Special Forces Group (Airborne); personal signi cance because his Naval Special Warfare Unit Two; and grandfather is a D-Day veteran. is Special Operations Command Africa. was his opportunity to remember and Commemorating the airborne A U.S. service member rides with a French re-enactor in a World War II period vehicle as honor his family by being part of such landing on D-day 1944, they per- part of SOCEUR’s participation in D-Day commemorative events June 7 in Normandy, France. remarkable history. formed the military free falls from — Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Will Patterson, SOCEUR Public Affairs "I am fortunate parachuting is 67th Special Operations Squadron part of my job and it's something I MC-130J Commando II aircra out of Just o the La Fiere drop zone to forget.” love to do. Few things will ever com- Royal Air Forces station Mildenhall. were bleachers for attendees to e jumps at Mont Saint-Michel pare to the opportunity we had to- “We’re here today to commemo- watch the commemorative events. began in 2009 through Les Amis du day, to jump into France over Mont rate the 71st anniversary of the jumps For one operator, his feet had barely Souvenir et de la Liberté (Friends for Saint-Michel to honor the paratroop- that took place over Normandy on touched the ground before he was Remembrance and Liberty).