Kaiserslautern Military Community

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The Kaiserslautern Military Community (KMC) refers to the entirety of the facilities of the US armed forces ( United States Army and United States Air Force ) in and around Kaiserslautern . With around 57,000 US military personnel (as of September 2010), the KMC is the largest US military base outside the United States . For at September 30, 2010, the annual contribution of the KMC to the local economy at 2.07 billion US dollars .

Essential military facilities

One of the key military facilities within the Kaiserslautern Military Community ( KMC ) in the area belong to the Army , the Daenner barracks , the adhesive barracks and armored barracks in Kaiserslautern, Sembach Annex , the Miesau Army Depot (Bruchmühlbach-Miesau) and the US Army Medical Materiel Center, Europe in Pirmasens . From 1946 to 1997 the Husterhoeh barracks also belonged to the KMC .

The Air Force maintains the facilities of the Warrior Preparation Center in Einsiedlerhof , Rhine Ordnance Barracks , Kapaun Air Station and Pulaski-Barracks in Kaiserslautern and Ramstein Air Base (Ramstein-Miesenbach).

The Army also operates the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center . There is also the Housing Area in Vogelweh .

Military importance

While many combat units of the US armed forces were stationed in and around Kaiserslautern in the past, the role of the KMC has now developed into the most important logistics base outside the USA. Most of the logistics of the US armed forces for missions in Iraq or Afghanistan, for example, are handled via Ramstein Air Base . As a result, logistics and support units are now primarily stationed in Kaiserslautern.

The Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, the largest US military hospital outside the USA, is, among other things, the central point of contact for the treatment of soldiers who were wounded during their deployment in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Infrastructure

In addition to the purely military facilities, the KMC includes an extensive infrastructure for the US citizens living in Kaiserslautern and the surrounding area. These include their own housing estates (e.g. Vogelweh ), shops, leisure and sports facilities, restaurants, but also their own police and fire brigade. The schools are subordinate to the Department of Defense Dependents Schools .

The Kaiserslautern Military Community Center was inaugurated on Ramstein Air Base in October 2009 , in which shopping and leisure opportunities are to be bundled. The AAFES store within the KMCC is currently the largest AAFES facility in the world with around 50,000 m².

See also

Web links

literature

  • Jörg Zorbach: The Kaiserslautern Borderland: Reverberations of the American Leasehold Empire . Peter Lang, 2014 (also dissertation University Mainz).

Individual evidence

  1. a b Economic Impact Statement (AFD-120328-005) ( September 1, 2014 memento on the Internet Archive ) Ramstein Air Base, accessed October 30, 2015.
  2. ^ Kaiserslautern Military Community , Globalsecurity.org
  3. New shopping center on the Ramstein Airbase broadcast on November 10, 2009 on SWR Rheinland-Pfalz television
  4. Ramstein to open final phase of KMCC, world's largest AAFES store ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Ramstein.af.mil, notification dated September 17, 2009  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ramstein.af.mil