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Ramstein Air Base〔IATA: RMS, ICAO: ETAR, former code EDAR.〕 is a United States Air Force base in Rhineland-Palatinate, a state in south-western Germany. It serves as headquarters for the United States Air Forces in Europe - Air Forces Africa (USAFE-AFAFRICA) and is also a North Atlantic Treaty Organization installation. Ramstein is located near the town of Ramstein-Miesenbach, in the rural district of Kaiserslautern. The Air Base is used to coordinate and execute most of the United States global Drone program.〔http://www.dw.de/berlin-powerless-to-challenge-us-drone-operations-at-ramstein-air-base/a-17545327〕〔http://rt.com/news/us-drones-germany-ramstein-625/〕〔http://www.icij.org/blog/2013/12/secret-us-drone-bases-germany-revealed〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Exclusive: Air Force Whistleblowers Risk Prosecution to Warn Drone War Kills Civilians, Fuels Terror )〕 The east gate of Ramstein Air Base is about from Kaiserslautern (locally referred to by Americans as "K-Town"). Other nearby civilian communities include Ramstein-Miesenbach, just outside the base's west gate, and Landstuhl, about from the west gate. Besides the U.S. Air Force, the installation's population includes Belgian, British, Canadian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, and Polish personnel. ==Overview== The host unit is the 86th Airlift Wing (86 AW), commanded by Brigadier General Patrick X. Mordente. The 86th Airlift Wing is composed of six groups, 27 squadrons and three bases in Germany, Spain, and Belgium. Its mission is the operation and maintenance of airlift assets consisting of C-130Js, C-20s, C-21s, C-40B and C-37A Gulfstream aircraft throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Also at Ramstein is the 435th Air Ground Operations Wing (formerly the 435th Air Base Wing) (435 AGOW), which focuses on base-support responsibilities within the KMC. It is composed of five groups and 20 squadrons. The wing provides rapid mobility and agile combat support for military operations, and maintains expeditionary forces and infrastructure. The commander of the 435th AGOW is Colonel Joseph D. McFall.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Biographies: COLONEL JOSEPH D. MCFALL )〕 The new 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing stood up on 4 September 2008.〔(Wing activation of the 521st AMOW )〕 The previous commander of the 521st AMOW was Colonel Kimberly J. Corcoran.〔(Biographies : COLONEL KIMBERLY J. CORCORAN )〕 Ramstein's wings are assigned to the headquarters 3rd Air Force also based at Ramstein AB, which controls most of the USAF Wings throughout Europe. Ramstein AB is part of the Kaiserslautern Military Community (KMC), where more than 54,000 American service members and more than 5,400 US civilian employees live and work. U.S. organizations in the KMC also employ the services of more than 6,200 German workers. Air Force units in the KMC alone employ almost 9,800 military members, bringing with them nearly 11,100 family members. There are more than 16,200 military, U.S. civilian and U.S. contractors assigned to Ramstein AB alone. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ramstein Air Base」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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