Miesau Army Depot
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| place | Bruchmühlbach-Miesau | |
| Client | US Army | |
| Construction year | 1949 | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 23 '32 " N , 7 ° 24' 30" E | |
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The Miesau Army Depot (aka Ammunition Center Europe ) in Rhineland-Palatinate is the largest ammunition depot of the US Army outside the United States .
location
The depot is located between Kaiserslautern and Saarbrücken to the northwest of the Bruchmühlbach-Miesau junction of federal motorway 6 , to which it is connected via this and also via the Waldmohr junction .
history
Today's Miesau Army Depot was founded on May 23, 1949 under the name Rhine Ammunition Depot . The transport of the building material for the construction of the depot was carried out by the approximately one kilometer away, at the Glan Valley Railway located Schoenberg Kübelberg station .
It served the US Army as an ammunition storage facility within the framework of NATO.
Over the years, the names of the depot and the organizational assignment have changed several times. Today it is subordinate to the 21st Theater Sustainment Command (TSC). The TSC is the largest supply unit of the US Army in Europe, the headquarters of which is in the armored barracks in Kaiserslautern .
The depot gained national fame as part of the Lindwurm campaign as an interim storage facility for poison gas grenades (containing the nerve gases VX and sarin ) transported from a US military depot near the town of Clausen . The poison gas grenades brought there in several truck convoys were transported from Miesau by train to the port of Nordenham in Lower Saxony , where they were shipped and brought to the Johnston Atoll in the Pacific for later destruction .
task
The task of the Miesau Army Depot is to store a wide variety of ammunition types, which are stored there, partly in warehouses and partly in bunkers . In addition to supplying the US armed forces in Europe with ammunition, the Miesau Army Depot also largely supplies ammunition for US troops in Afghanistan and Iraq .
Most of the ammunition is transported to and from the Ramstein Air Base via Autobahn 6 .
See also
credentials
- ↑ The Army Depot Miesau celebrates its 60th birthday from "Airmail - Peace Political Messages from the US Military Region Kaiserslautern / Ramstein from October 15, 2009, last accessed on March 10, 2010 (PDF; 171 kB)