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Baumholder Army Airfield is a small military airfield in support of the United States Army facilities in Baumholder, Germany. It has a single runway in the 07/25 direction which is 16 metres (52 ft) wide and 572 metres (1,877 ft) long. [1] It is located just north-east of the town of Reichenbach.
The Defense Base Realignment and Closure Act of 1990 provided "the basic framework for the transfer and disposal of military installations closed during the base realignment and closure (BRAC) process". [3] The process was created in 1988 to reduce pork barrel politics with members of Congress that arise when facilities face activity reductions ...
The 16th Sustainment Brigade is a sustainment brigade of the United States Army based at Smith Barracks in Baumholder, Germany. It is a subordinate unit of the 21st Theater Sustainment Command of the Seventh Army. Activated in the summer of 2007, the brigade traces its lineage to the 7th and 16th Corps Support Groups which combined to form it ...
Baumholder is well known as the location of one of the biggest American garrisons in Germany, which sprang up beginning in the 1950s on the lands of the Baumholder Troop Drilling Ground (Truppenübungsplatz Baumholder), which abuts the town. Ever since that time, the 13,000 or so United States military personnel and their dependents have ...
In February 2012, Military.com announced that the brigade would be inactivated by the summer of 2012. [8] Over the course of the year, 4,000 of the brigade's 4,500 soldiers were reassigned. On 9 October 2012, the 170th Infantry Brigade was inactivated in Germany, with the remaining 500 soldiers present for the event.
formerly an Army Intelligence center; was transferred to Bundeswehr as an administration school in 1975. A NATO Special Weapons School still exists on the grounds. Heidelberg Army Airfield Heidelberg: Helmstedt Support Detachment Helmstedt: closed 1990 Herzo Base Herzogenaurach: closed 1992 Hessen Homberg Kaserne Hanau: closed 1990s Hindenburg ...
2nd Brigade: 2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division in Baumholder, Germany, remained assigned to USAREUR until 15 July 2009, when it was reflagged as the separate 170th Infantry Brigade. [30] As part of the Grow the Army Plan announced on 19 December 2007, the 170th was one of two infantry brigades to be activated and retained in Germany until 2012 ...
The 5th Battalion, 7th Air Defense Artillery Regiment (5-7 ADA) is a Patriot air defense battalion of the United States Army.It is currently a subordinate unit of the 10th Army Air & Missile Defense Command (AAMDC) and comprises six subordinate units: a headquarters and headquarters battery, four Patriot fire batteries, and a maintenance company. 5-7 ADA is headquartered at Smith Barracks in ...