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.
The Air Force wants to “own and run” more of its air bases, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Kenneth S. Wilsbach said Nov. 6, in what could be a major potential revamp the military’s joint base program. Speaking at the Airlift/Tanker Association’s 2026 Symposium, Wilsbach said he and the…