A 23-year-old airman from the 86th Airlift Wing at Ramstein Air Base who had been seriously injured in a car crash died this week in a Maryland hospital.
Military commands from all services across the theater are asking service members whose bills are exceeding their allowances to provide their leadership with documentation, such as receipts or rate increase letters, officials said this week.
The rising demand is coming largely from off-base families who want to move on base and military family members who spoke with Stars and Stripes cited energy prices as the reason.
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