Kaiserslautern Military Community

As Kaiserslautern Military Community ( KMC) means all of the U.S. armed forces (U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force) is referred to in and around Kaiserslautern. With around 50,000 military personnel and civilians (as of September 2011) is the KMC world 's largest U.S. military base outside the United States.

Major military installations

One of the key military facilities within the KMC in the Army include Daenner Barracks (Kaiserslautern ), the adhesive Barracks (Kaiserslautern ), the Panzer Kaserne (Kaiserslautern ), Sembach Annex, the Miesau Army Depot ( Bruchmühlbach -Miesau ) the Husterhoeh barracks (1946-1997) and the " USAMMCE " (U.S. Army Medical Materiel Center, Europe) in Pirmasens.

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

The Army also operates nor the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. Then comes the Vogelweh housing area in Kaiserslautern.

Military importance

Goods previously stationed in and around Kaiserslautern, many combat units of the U.S. armed forces, so the role of the KMC has developed in the meantime towards the main logistics base outside the United States. About the Ramstein Air Base, most of the logistics of the U.S. armed forces will be handled for the inserts, for example, in Iraq or Afghanistan. Consequently, in the meantime primarily logistics and support units stationed in Kaiserslautern.

The Landstuhl Regional Medical Center as the largest U.S. military hospital outside the United States, among other central Anlaufort for the treatment of soldiers who were while deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan wounded.

Infrastructure

Beyond the purely military institutions, the KMC has an extensive infrastructure for the people living in Kaiserslautern and surroundings U.S. citizens. This includes their own housing estates (eg Vogelweh ), shops, leisure and sports facilities, restaurants, etc., but also has its own police and fire departments. The schools are the Department of Defense Dependents Schools assumed.

On the Ramstein Air Base, the Kaiserslautern Military Community Center ( KMCC ) was inaugurated in October 2009, in which of shopping and leisure facilities are to be pooled. The AAFES store within the KMCC has 50,000 m2 currently the largest AAFES facility in the world.