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After visiting GIs in Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq as part the congressional delegation prelude to his campaign swing in the Middle East and Europe, Barack Obama canceled planned visits to the U.S. military bases at Ramsteina and Landstuhl.Landstuhl is where wounded U.S. troops are taken from the battlefield to be stabalized before being flown to Walter Reed in Washington, D.C. and other military hospitals back home.Jake Tapper of ABC News reports the Obama campaign issued a statement saying the planned visits with the troops were canceled because it was deemed by the campaign to be "inapprpopriate" because Obama's stop in...

1:42 p.m.: SPIEGEL ONLINE has learned that Obama has cancelled a planned short visit to the Rammstein and Landstuhl US military bases in the southwest German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The visits were planned for Friday. "Barack Obama will not be coming to us," a spokesperson for the US military hospital in Landstuhl announced. "I don't know why." Shortly before the same spokeswoman had announced a planned visit by Obama.

NORFOLKAs doctors removed pieces of shrapnel from his body Friday, Staff Sgt. Jesse Queck was piecing together accounts of the attack that killed nine of his comrades in Afghanistan earlier this week.Queck, who grew up in Eastville and Cheriton on Virginia's Eastern Shore, is recovering from combat injuries at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany.He is one of about a dozen injured soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment (Airborne), 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team.The battle Sunday involved an estimated 200 Taliban insurgents coordinating a large-scale attack on an unfinished mountain outpost near the Pakistani border.About 45 U.S. soldiers...

LANDSTUHL, Germany, Oct. 30, 2007 – Patients at a new medical transient detachment barracks that opened here earlier this month point to the facility as proof that the military is living up to its promises to ensure troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan get the best care possible. The new Warrior Transition Unit at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany offers sick or wounded troops from the combat zone being treated as outpatients a higher quality of life and easier access to care. Photo by Donna Miles  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. When word broke in February of...

LANDSTUHL, Germany — Ask Romanian Army Lt. Col. Dorin Petrut how old he is and he’ll probably say, “22 years for each leg.” He does that, he says, because he can, thanks to the doctors at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. They saved his lower left leg from amputation after he was injured in a rocket attack near Baghdad International Airport on Sept. 11. “I heard a sound like a C-17. I thought, ‘This is an airport. That’s not unusual,’” Petrut recalled. The next thing he remembered was seeing nearby cars “splattered with my flesh and blood.” The other Romanian and...

"Every day, planes land at Ramstein with severely injured US soldiers from Iraq. In the biggest American military hospital in Europe, lives are saved, limbs amputated and gunshot wounds patched up. It's the Iraq War's German front." "Dawn Garcia, a 40-year-old native of Texas, is difficult to overlook. She exudes a sense of kindness that changes every room she enters. She lives in Landstuhl with her husband and two daughters, has been in the army for 18 years and clearly loves her work. She is a remarkable person."

A CBS spokeswoman says correspondent Kimberly Dozier has undergone two surgeries since being injured in a car bombing Monday in Iraq. Doctors have removed shrapnel from her head, but they say the most series injuries are to her lower body. Dozier is being treated in Germany. The blast in Baghdad killed British cameraman Paul Douglas and freelance soundman James Brolan. Military officials say Dozier will be treated at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, which is the U.S. military's largest overseas hospital. CBS says all three journalists were riding in an armored humvee and are believed to have been wearing protective...

RAMSTEIN, Germany — Cindy Sheehan says she will not be near Ramstein Air Base or participate in a protest march from Landstuhl to Ramstein on Saturday if she goes through with a planned trip to Europe. Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq and the woman who protested the war last summer outside President Bush’s ranch in Texas, said in an e-mail Wednesday to Stars and Stripes that “everything is up in the air at this point.” Sheehan is due to arrive in Frankfurt on Thursday. Despite uncertainty clouding Sheehan’s visit, protesters and counterprotesters still plan to gather...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2006 – Wounded servicemembers have an extra helping hand thanks to Operation First Response, a group specializing in providing them supplies and funds during their recuperation. Peggy Baker of Culpepper, Va., founder and president of the all-volunteer nonprofit, answered questions from interested troops Jan. 19 at the Washington Capitals' "Salute to the Military Night" at the MCI Center here. While thousands of servicemembers and their families enjoyed free tickets to the hockey game against the St. Louis Blues, Baker took the opportunity to offer assistance. "We're kind of an extension. Where somebody will fall through the loops,...

Online Auction of the 50,000th copy of Military Salute to benefit Operation First Response The Minnesota Platoon, a group of five disabled Vietnam-era Veterans that distributes “Military Salute” at no charge to active-duty Military units, Veterans groups, family support groups, public safety organizations, church groups, school districts, and students working on patriotic projects, is now conducting an online auction of the 50,000th copy of the video to benefit Operation First Response. Operation First Response ... http://www.operationfirstresponse.org ... sends backpacks to Combat Support Hospitals in Iraq, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, and visits Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the...

WASHINGTON, June 29, 2005 – When Karen Grimord found out in August 2004 that war-wounded servicemembers were spending long days and nights at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany without any entertainment in their hospital rooms, she decided to do something about it. Since founding the Landstuhl Hospital Care Project in November 2004, Grimord and her husband, Brian, have spearheaded sending nearly $20,000 worth of items to the pastoral services at Landstuhl for war-wounded patients and their families. The items include sweats suits, tennis shoes, CD players, skull caps, socks, phone cards, house slippers, break-away pants, winter jackets, board games,...

With more soldiers leaving combat because of medical problems associated with advancing age, doctors and Army planners are adjusting to offer better treatment and to prevent unfit soldiers from seeing combat. Doctors at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, for example, are adapting to handle more heart and hernia patients, two of the top three non-combat injuries they treat. Later this year, a doctor specializing in angioplasty will join Landstuhl’s staff so the hospital can perform the procedure regularly rather than sending patients to Walter Reed Army Medical Center or local German hospitals. And, Dr. (Col.) Randolph Modlin, chief of...

WASHINGTON — Americans responded almost immediately to early reports that wounded U.S. soldiers in Germany needed clothing, but now the facility as well as the Army hospital in Washington, D.C., are urging donors to hold off for a while. “It seems like every city had a clothes drive for our soldiers,” said Marie Shaw, public affairs officer at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (search) in Germany, which has tended to more than 18,000 servicemen and women wounded in Iraq since the beginning of operations there in March 2003. "We received tons of things over the holidays — we now have a...

I talked to Walter Reed people today--they're swamped with supplies, including phone cards, "til June," one told me.   But they're desperate at Ramstein.  Per below. _____________________________________________________________________ From: Lori Noyes Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 12:28 AM Subject: Request for Help for our wounded troops at LRMC Dear CAP Friends:  I am writing is to tell you about a project the Ramstein Cadet Squadron at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, is starting. The Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (LRMC) here in Germany got an influx of about 500 wounded troops from Iraq last week and more arrive almost daily. They arrive straight from...

Rob Biron has seen some sad sights on the floor of the trauma ward at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. He has also seen acts of bravery and kindness.

FYI - endorsed by an in-country CH-46 USMC squadron CO -----Original Message----- Take a Wounded Soldier to the Movie Program To all, Another good cause. Considering I have just sent 2 more of my Marines through Landstuhl wounded from hostile fire, I am a big fan of this. VR LtCol Roy A "Ozzie" Osborn HMM-263(REIN) "Thunder Chickens" ----- -----Original Message----- From: Inghilterra, Vincent J. COL Meeting the request and desire for persons and families to be more personally involved in caring for and supporting our wounded troops during this holiday season, the Command has endorsed in coordination with LRMC: Take...

FRANKFURT, Germany - Medical staff at a U.S. military hospital in southwest Germany are expanding bed capacity to care for scores of wounded from Iraq, including many from the assault on Fallujah, officials said Thursday. A planeload with 53 wounded from Iraq arrived Thursday morning and another with 49 more was expected to arrive Thursday evening at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center - together making an anticipated 102 for the day, spokeswoman Marie Shaw said. "We are very busy," Shaw said. "We have seen an increase of patient arrivals since the outbreak of the Fallujah conflict." On Wednesday, 64 wounded...

Sergeant Joseph Bozik, an Airborne Soldier with the 118th MP Company (Airborne) from Ft. Bragg, was recently wounded. He has lost both legs and an arm from a landmine, is not not conscious and has many medical complications. On Monday, Sergeant Bozik will be flown into Walter Reed from Landstuhl (Germany). Unfortunately, the family doesn't have enough money to maintain themselves in a hotel (let alone buy food) for an extended period. The Army paid for airfare for 2 family members and Soldiers' Angels paid for airfare for 2 two more. The Angels can cover hotel expenses for only three...

Guard chaplains minister to wounded troops LANDSTUHL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER, Germany -- Alabama Air National Guard Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Robert Hicks prays with two U.S. servicemembers here. The Baptist minister is assigned to the hospital to comfort Guard troops who have been injured in Iraq and Afghanistan. (U.S. Army photo by Master Sgt. Bob Haskell) by Army Master Sgt. Bob HaskellNational Guard Bureau 10/26/2004 - LANDSTUHL, Germany (AFPN)  -- There was no doubt in anyone's mind, including his wife's and his father's, that Arkansas Army National Guard Spc. Ronald Baker was going to die. All that kept the man from Cabot, Ark.,...

It was an unusual pairing of VIPs, but one that had patients and staff at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center buzzing. Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year Toby Keith and Motor City Madman and rock legend Ted Nugent stepped off an Army Blackhawk May 30 to visit the wounded at LRMC before playing a free USO concert in Illesheim, Germany. First was lunch at the dining facility. Mr. Nugent, an avid hunter, was pleased with the menu. “Give me the biggest, greasiest, nastiest rib you can get your hands on,” said Mr. Nugent to one of the servers. After lunch,...