Mission control area 2

Operational area 2 - EinsFüBer 2 - III
Coat of arms of the EFB 2
Lineup	April 1966
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Armed forces
Branch of service	Operations management service
Type	regiment
Insinuation	Air Force Center Air Operations
Location	Hachenberg barracks , Erndtebrück
Nickname	Loneship
Awards	Flag of North Rhine-Westphalia (1990)
Current commander
Kdr. EinsFüBer 2	Lieutenant Colonel Jörg Sieratzki
insignia
Homepage	The EinsFüBer 2

View from the Hachenberg barracks to Erndtebrück.

The application guide section 2 (short EinsFüBer 2 or EFB 2) with the associated stationary Control and Reporting Center (CRC) "Loneship" is an association Regiment status of the German air force . The management staff of the association, the stationary CRC in the new operational building, as well as the training, test and training facility (ATT) "Slate Rock" are stationed in the Hachenberg barracks in Erndtebrück . The association is subordinate to the Air Force Air Operations Center .

assignment

Operations control area 2 is part of the Air Force operations control service . The task consists in the operational use of the associated CRC of the air force in the network of integrated NATO air defense and the training of the personnel of the operational command service. He fulfills the following tasks:

• Surveillance, protection and defense of the assigned airspace of the Federal Republic of Germany
• Creation, management and evaluation of the "Recognized Air Picture" (AP) in the area of ​​responsibility
• Tactical command and support of air forces
• Coordination of military flight movements with the NATO CAOC 2 , the national Surface to Air Missile Operations Centers (SAMOC), the national situation and command center for security in the airspace up to "air policing" with the neighboring countries
• Taking over the airspace surveillance for another CRC as well as the coordination and control of protective and defense measures, including the implementation of the necessary defense measures
• Ensuring material and operational readiness for use in 24-hour operation, 365 days a year
• Maintenance and repair of the radar devices and electronic equipment used
• Management of subordinate units and facilities
• Training of personnel in operations management

Course-related training

Operations control area 2 is the central training facility for course-related operational training, but also for basic technical training, cross-departmental for all operations command personnel from the other departments of the Air Force Operations Management Service and other NATO partners. More than 500 course participants complete the various training courses every year. The training, test and training facility (ATT) in operational management area 2 enables high-quality and efficient training that consistently uses simulator-supported training sections to supplement LIVE training components in a location-related and application-related manner.

Be formed

• Operations staff officer, with license examination
• NCOs, sergeants and officers for operational use in a CRC, with license examination
• Maintenance and repair personnel as well as administrators for the command and weapon deployment systems of the Air Force ARKONA and GIADS , with proof of performance
• Mission command personnel from other NATO partners, with license examination
• Civilian personnel

organization

guide

Mission control area 2
Commander (Kdr A)
O Jörg Sieratzki
Deputy Commander and Head of Task Force (Kdr B)		Head of Teaching and Process Center (Kdr B)
OTL Michael Wentzel		OTL Christian Kramer

Subordinate units

Teaching and process center
designation			Location
Mission Command Training Inspector 23			Erndtebrück
Teaching group training			Erndtebrück
Technology, tactics and regulations group (TTVG)			Erndtebrück

Task Force
designation			Location		comment
CRC, operations management			Erndtebrück		-
Command squadron 21			Erndtebrück		-
Mission support squadron 22			Erndtebrück		-
	Sensor train II (north)		Auenhausen		-
		AbgTZg 241, Crabtree (CT)	Marienbaum		HADR
		AbgTZg 242, Backwash (BW)	Brakel (Auenhausen)		GM 406F
		AbgTZg 243, Silver Cork (SI)	Visselhövede		GM 406F
		AbgTZg 244, Round up (RU)	Brockzetel		HADR
		AbgTZg 245, Bugle (BG)	Brekendorf		GM 406F
	Sensor train I (south)		Lauda		-
		AbgTZg 246, Hardwheel (HW)	Birkenfeld (Erbeskopf)		HADR
		AbgTZg 247, Batman (BN)	Lauda-Koenigshofen		GM 406F
		AbgTZg 248, Coldtrack (CD)	Freising		GM 406F
		AbgTZg 249, Sweet Apple (SA)	Meßstetten		HADR
		AbgTZg 240, Loneship (LS)	Erndtebrück		GM 406F

history

The association was set up in April 1966 with the establishment of the II. Department of the 33 Telecommunications Regiment under Major Friedrich Thuringia and was affected by restructuring and expansion of the range of tasks up to the present, but also by repeatedly reducing the workforce. Nevertheless, the air force location in Erndtebrück with the Hachenberg barracks is and will remain one of the largest employers in the region.

One of the high points in the eventful history of the association was, for example, on October 3, 1990, the day of German unity, when it took over the surveillance of the airspace over the new federal states. From the time when full sovereignty was regained until October 5, 1992, the association's own command and air defense bunker "Erich" together with the central command post 14 of the former NVA air forces monitored the East German airspace. Today this airspace is monitored by Operations Control Area 3 .

The operational command area in its current form and staffing level was created on October 1, 2004 by amalgamating with the previously existing V teaching group of the Air Force Technical School (V./TSLw 1) and the integration of the operational control area 1 components into the area on January 1, 2014 the Hachenberg barracks in Erndtebrück.

For half a century, the Luftwaffe's operational command service was significantly shaped by this operational command area in Wittgensteiner Land , it has gained NATO-wide importance and is affectionately referred to as the “mother company of the operational command service” among comrades.

With the reclassification as of January 1, 2014, two battalion equivalents were newly set up in operational command area 2: the teaching and process center (LVZ) and the operational group (EinsGrp). The training inspection 23 was subordinated to the LVZ, the operational command company 21 was renamed operational command squadron 21 and subordinated to the EinsGrp and the staff and support company 22 was reclassified to the operational support squadron 22 and placed under the EinsGrp. Four radar displays of the disbanded operational command area 1 were also integrated.

timeline

date	event
until 1945	the log cabin of Flugwache 33 (FluWa 33), in the area of ​​today's Hachenberg barracks at Erndtebrück
October 1965	Advance command under the leadership of First Lieutenant Wolfgang Roth relocated to Erndtebrück
April 1966	Establishment of the II. Department of the 33 Telecommunications Regiment and Major Friedrich Thuringia
May 1967	Festive naming "Hachenberg-Kaserne" for the Bundeswehr property on the Hachenberg
April 24, 1968	Completion of the local radar display of today's headquarters and support company 22 and start of the 24-hour shift work ( ⊙ )
4th January 1971	Commissioning of the V teaching group of Technical School 2 of the Air Force (V / TSLw 2) with two basic training units
1st August 1971	Dissolution of the II. Department of Telecommunications Regiment 33 and merger with the newly organized V. / TSLw 2
1972	Obsolescence replacement of the electronic data processing system in the warfare system and growth of the association through the commissioning of the "International Training Center" (ITC)
1980s - 90s	Operational use of the FüWES Lw NATO Air Defense Ground Environment (NADGE), use of the FüWES Lw German Air Defense Ground Environment (GEADGE) for training purposes
3rd October 1990	Takeover of the airspace surveillance over the territory of Eastern Germany as well as takeover and product improvement of the former NVA command and weapon deployment system ARKONA .
April 1, 1994	Changes to the subordination of the Air Force Programming Center for Air Defense (ProgrZLwLV) to Air Force Supply Regiment 8 and renaming of the association from V. / TSLw 2 to V. / TSLw 1.
August 1998	Due to serious fire protection deficiencies, the operational use of the combat control bunker "Erich" was discontinued and operational control was relocated to the premises of a former lecture hall building of the Hachenberg barracks
January 1, 2002	Relocation of the Air Force's programming center for air defense to the newly established weapon system support center in Landsberg
2006	Obsolescence replacement of the outdated ADMAR by CIMACT
January 2009	Establishment of the “system support center for command systems of the Air Force” and increase in the workforce to around 100 posts for highly qualified personnel
2010	Scaffolding RMCDE and connection to the MilRADNET the Air Force
April 2011	Implementation of operational operations, after approx. 3.5 years of construction, from the new CRC operational building of the Hachenberg barracks and operational use of the FüWES Lw GIADS III
January 2014	Adoption of the new structure in accordance with the realignment of the Bundeswehr, integration of components of operational command area 1
November 2017	Elimination of obsolescence of outdated computer components and update of GIADS III
August 2018	Completion of obsolescence removal and recommissioning of the CRC deployment building

Former commanders

Rank, name	period of service	comment
II. Telecommunications Regiment 33 (since 1966)
OTL Friedrich Thuringia	May 9, 1966 - September 30, 1968	deceased
OTL Paul Sommerhoff	October 1, 1968 - March 31, 1970	deceased
OTL Martin Malmus	04/01/1970 - 07/31/1971
V. Teaching group of Technical School 2 of the Air Force (since 1972)
OTL Dieter Franckenberg	08/01/1971 - 03/31/1975	deceased
O Hubert Schmitt	04/01/1975 - 09/30/1978	deceased
O Lorenz Count Strachwitz	October 01, 1978 - March 31, 1980
O Friedhelm-Wilhelm Lübbe	04/01/1980 - 03/31/1982
O Adolf Hennemann	04/01/1982 - 03/31/1985
O Felix Autrata	04/01/1985 - 03/31/1986
O Wolfgang Schwerin	04/01/1986 - 03/31/1991
O Rolf Weckesser	04/01/1991 - 03/31/1993
V. Teaching group of Technical School 1 of the Air Force (since 1994)
O Arnulf Richardt	04/01/1993 - 12/12/1996
O Friedhelm Zwiener	12/13/1996 - 01/15/1999
O Günther Gülzow	04/01/1999 - 03/31/2001
O Wolfgang Kruchem	03/31/2001 - 08/31/2002	deceased
Operations area 2 (since 2004)
O Groh	09/01/2002 - 03/06/2007
O Dieter Beck	07.03.2007 - 31.12.2011
O Martin Kruger	01/01/2012 - 12/03/2014
O Lars Hoffmann	December 3, 2014 - April 17, 2018
OTL Jörg Sieratzki	04/17/2018 - ongoing

literature

• 50 years operational command service in the Air Force 1960–2010, L. Fölbach 2001, special publications by Fölbach Verlag

Web links

• The operational command area 2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ RMCDE stands for: Radar Message Conversion & Distribution Equipment and is a network node on the application protocol level for the conversion, filtering and distribution of radar data in a radar data network for civil air traffic control.
2. ↑ MilRADNET stands for: Military radar data network.

Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 33 ″  N , 8 ° 14 ′ 22 ″  E