The Government Accountability Office plans to conduct a second review of the trouble-plagued construction of the new Kaiserslautern military community center project at Ramstein AB, Germany. Greg Kutz, GAO’s director of forensic audits and special investigations and lead author of a K-town report released in June, told Stars and Stripes, “The KMCC is clearly a troubled project and there’s no end in sight.” The Air Force Office of Special Investigation has been working with German law enforcement officials to gauge the extent of alleged corruption and mismanagement, and earlier this month the German government offered to extend a loan to the German companies working the project to try to get it moving forward again.
In Purge, Trump Fires Brown, Slife, Franchetti, and More
Feb. 21, 2025
President Donald Trump fired Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, announcing his intent to nominate retired Air Force Lt. Gen. John "Dan" Caine to replace him in a social media post Feb. 21.