Tactical training and further education center FlaRakLw USA
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Tactical training and further education center FlaRakLw USA |
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 Internal association badge (coat of arms) |
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| Lineup | April 1, 2005 |
| Country |
 Germany
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| Armed forces |
 armed forces
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| Association badge |
air force
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| Strength | 90 soldiers and 350–400 course participants |
| Insinuation |
 FlaRakG 1
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| Location | Fort Bliss in El Paso ( Texas ) Fort Sill ( Oklahoma ) |
| Web presence | TaktAusbWbZ FlaRakLw USA |
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| commander |
Lieutenant Colonel Ingo Scharschmidt |
| Deputy Commander |
Lieutenant Colonel Henri Neubert |
The tactical training and further education center for anti-aircraft missiles of the Air Force USA (TaktAusbWbZ FlaRakLw USA; English : German Air Force Air Defense Center ) is a training facility of the German armed forces at the US location Fort Bliss in El Paso ( Texas ).
history
The agency is the successor institution of the former rocket school of the Air Force USA (RakSLw USA, English: German Air Force Air Defense School ) and was put into service on April 1, 2005 after its dissolution. After the Air Force Aviation Training Center in New Mexico has been decommissioned, it is the largest training facility in the German Air Force .
Even before the Luftwaffe's rocket school, founded in 1964, was moved from Aachen to Fort Bliss in 1966, German soldiers had been working on anti-aircraft missile systems at the United States Army's US Anti-Aircraft Artillery and Guided Missile School (later: US Army Air Defense School ) trained. The training took place on the FlaRak systems Nike ( Nike Ajax and Nike Hercules ), Hawk and Patriot . In the meantime, only the Patriot weapon system is trained.
On February 16, 2012, Federal Defense Minister Thomas de Maizière announced that training on the Patriot missile defense system is to be relocated to the anti-aircraft missile training center at the anti-aircraft missile squadron 1 in Husum, Schleswig-Holstein . In the future, sharp missile tests will take place on the Greek island of Crete .
As part of the realignment of the Bundeswehr , a German anti-aircraft missile unit Fort Sill was set up at Fort Sill , USA, at the Fires Center of Excellence (FCoE) of the US Army and placed under the Air Defense Missile Squadron 1 . Shares in further development and training of the TaktAusbWbZ FlaRakLw USA relocated from Fort Bliss to Fort Sill. The remaining training components of the TaktAusbWbZ FlaRakLw USA were subordinated to the anti-aircraft missile squadron 1 (FlaRakG 1 "SH") from April 1, 2013 and relocate to Husum Air Base depending on the infrastructural requirements . There they will be integrated into the FlaRak training center (AnbZFlaRak). The TaktAusbWbZ FlaRakLw USA will then be dissolved.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Big line-up in the historic Fort Bliss on August 8th, 2016
- ↑ Commander. In: https://www.luftwaffe.de/ . Bundeswehr, August 17, 2018, accessed on February 17, 2019 .
- ↑ Realignment also affects German soldiers in the USA from February 16, 2012, accessed on February 16, 2012
- ↑ Realization plan Luftwaffe dated June 12, 2012 subplan 07, points 7-9, page 87