Employment notices started arriving today for base contract staff. My neighbour has worked at that gate for twenty-six years.
Everyone keeps calling this a geopolitical crisis. In this town it is a redundancy letter.
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@ktown_mel · 26 Jan 2026 · 21:00
What was happening
26 January 2026 · in the recordThe retrograde, and the fuel nobody could sellThe largest American movement out of Europe since 1990 stops on the ramp at Ramstein. Not for politics: the asset freeze broke the payment chain, and no supplier can lawfully sell …
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