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.
As Hurricane Melissa hammers the Caribbean, the U.S. Air Force’s “Hurricane Hunters” are busy flying into the massive Category 4 storm to collect atmospheric data—with one experiencing greater than expected turbulence Oct. 28.
