Allied Air Command Ramstein
The Allied Air Command Ramstein, short AC Ramstein (Air ) is a NATO command authority for the guidance of air forces. It is stationed with his headquarters at Ramstein Air Base, in Rhineland -Palatinate and is subordinate to the JFC Brunssum.
History
On June 28, 1974, the Allied Air Forces Central Europe ( AAFCE ) were set up under the leadership of the Allied Forces Central Europe ( AFCENT ). Participating nations were Belgium, Germany, Canada, the Netherlands, the United kingdom and the United States of America. The AAFCE were under the 2nd Allied Tactical Air Force ( 2ATAF ) in Mönchengladbach, responsible for NATO air forces in the north, and the 4th Allied Tactical Air Force ( 4ATAF ) in Ramstein, responsible for the associations in the southern area of the Central Region.
With the restructuring of the NATO HQ AAFCE was reorganized on 1 July 1993 as the HQ Allied Air Forces Central Europe ( AIRCENT ). Here, among other things, the duties of the dissolved in the same year the 2nd and 4th ATAF him were transmitted.
After the dissolution of the command, Allied Forces Northern Europe ( AFNORTH ) took over on 1 January 1994 AFCENT whose jurisdiction for Denmark and the northern parts of Germany. The accession of Poland and the Czech Republic to NATO, the responsibility of AIRCENT in March 1999, increased again. On 3 March 2000, the AIRNORTHWEST, High Wycombe, United Kingdom, and AIRCENT were merged and Allied Air Forces North ( AirNorth ) was established. In addition, the leadership of the organizations that were assigned to the HQ Allied Command Baltic Approaches ( BALTAP ) was acquired.
After March 2004, the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and Slovakia were part of the region north of NATO, on July 1, 2004 after internal restructuring renamed the Component Command Air Headquarters Ramstein (CC -AIR Ramstein ). Since 1 March 2010 the Headquarters Allied Air Command Ramstein (HQ AC Ramstein ) existed in its present structure.
Tasks
The AC Ramstein is a headquarters of the NATO command structure at the tactical level, which is the Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum downstream. The Commander AC Ramstein advises the commander of the Joint Force Command Brunssum regarding air operations and in Outer Space Affairs. He takes on his behalf the tasks (Regional) Air Commander ( German: Regional Commander of the Air Force ), Regional Air Defense Commander ( German: Regional Commander of the Air Defense ) and Regional Airspace Control Authority ( German: Responsible for the Regional Airspace Control) true. This means, among other things, that it carries out its assigned portions of the air forces in the area of responsibility, the air defense is in the geographical area assigned to and the coordination of airspace takes over when needed.
In practice, these tasks show among other things that the AC Ramstein is responsible for the operations of the air forces in ISAF and the NATO Baltic Air Policing.
Organization
The Commander AC Ramstein is an American four- star general, who is also Commander United States Air Forces in Europe and Director Joint Air Power Competence Centre. He is supported by an international staff. Report to him in Denmark, the Combined Air Operations Centre ( CAOC ) Uedem in Germany and the CAOC Finderup.
The post of his deputy is occupied alternately in 2013 by a French and a British three- star general.
Commander AC Ramstein is currently General Mark A. Welsh III, Deputy Commander until his retirement in the German Lt. Gen. Friedrich Wilhelm Ploeger.