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Additional Information from Internet Encyclopedia
Ramstein Air Base or Ramstein AB (IATA: RMS, ICAO:
ETAR) is a United States Air Force base in Rhineland-Palatinate, a state in
southwestern Germany. It serves as headquarters for the United States Air
Forces in Europe Air Forces Africa (USAFE-AFAFRICA) and also for NATO Allied
Air Command (AIRCOM). Ramstein is located near the town of Ramstein-Miesenbach,
which stands outside the base's west gate, in the rural district of
Kaiserslautern.
The east gate of Ramstein Air Base is
approximately 16 kilometres (10 mi) from Kaiserslautern (locally referred to by
Americans as "K-Town"). Other nearby civilian communities include
Landstuhl, some 5 kilometres (3 mi) from the west gate.
Overview
86th Airlift Wing.png435th Air Ground Operations
Wing.png521st Air Mobility Operations Wing.png
The host unit is the 86th Airlift Wing (86 AW),
commanded as of 15 July 2022 by Brigadier General Otis C. Jones. The 86th
Airlift Wing is composed of six groups, 30 squadrons and four bases in Germany,
Spain, the Azores, and Belgium. Its mission is the operation and maintenance of
airlift assets consisting of C-130Js, C-21s, 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.
As of July 2021, the commander of the 435th AGOW
is Colonel Bryan T. Callahan.
The new 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing stood
up on 4 September 2008.[6] As of June 2020, the commander of the 521st AMOW is
Colonel Adrienne Williams.
Ramstein's wings are assigned to the headquarters
3rd Air Force also based at Ramstein AB that 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.
In 1984, an enlisted airman (Sgt Darrel Dietlein),
assigned to the 1964th Communications Group, solicited National Headquarters
Civil Air Patrol to charter the first "Cadet Squadron" in Germany,
naming the unit "Ramstein Cadet Squadron" and becoming the unit's
first commander as a CAP First Lieutenant. The Ramstein Cadet Squadron was
formed with Captain Mark Bailey serving as the unit's first liaison officer, as
well as other like minded military volunteers and roughly six cadets. To this
day, the squadron enjoys vibrant member participation, as well as base support,
hosting drill competitions and encampments along with their traditional
military studies and aerospace education efforts. The Ramstein Cadet Squadron commander
as of February 2019 was Lt Col Chris Blank. The squadron is the parent unit for
2 flights located at Wiesbaden Army Airfield and Patch Barracks, Stuttgart.
Membership as of April 2019 was 124 members.
In the subsequent years, a companion cadet squadron
was formed at Spangdahlem Air Base. Distance learning cadets are located at
SHAPE, Belgium and Hohenfels, Germany.
Current status
From 2004 to 2006, Ramstein Air Base underwent an
extensive expansion with a major construction project including an all-new
airport terminal, among other new facilities, through the so-called Rhein-Main
Transition Program which was initiated in support of the total closure of
Rhein-Main Air Base on 30 December 2005 and transferring all its former
capacities to Ramstein Air Base (70%) and Spangdahlem Air Base (30%).
While the KMC remains the largest U.S. community
overseas at 53,000 people, the defense drawdown continues to shape its future.
Due to the departure of other main operating installations, more than 100
geographically separated units receive support from Ramstein.
Ramstein Air Base also served as temporary housing
for the United States men's national soccer team during the 2006 World Cup.
There is often a Summer Camp to Ramstein from
British CCF (RAF) and ATC cadets, as well as Civil Air Patrol encampments and
tours like the ones held in July 2015 and June 2016.
Currently, Ramstein Air Base consists of two
runways 09/27 and 08/26 two large aprons, one near a hangar north of
Runways 27 and 26, and one to the north of 09 and 08. The north-western apron
also has a small passenger terminal with two jetways. This means the air base
is capable of joint-use operations, although currently there are no scheduled
airlines running flights to and from Ramstein.
History
The construction of the air base was a project
designed and undertaken by the French Army and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
from 1949 to 1952. It was an example of international collaboration: designed
by French engineers, constructed by local businesses and large number of
temporary and migrant workers of Italy, Portugal, Spain, Greece, and Turkey and
operated by Americans.
The area was a swamp that had to be built up by
two meters (six feet). A train line was laid out from
Einsiedlerhof-Kaiserslautern in a yoke shape around to the current base and
back down to the Landstuhl spur in 1948 by agreement of the U.S. and French
Occupational Forces. Trainloads of earth were moved over the line and spread
over the base's current area to raise it to its current level. Once the ground
was level, building construction began. Two bases were laid out. Landstuhl Air
Base on the south side and Ramstein Air Station (station, no airstrip) on the
north. From 1948 to the opening of the bases in 1953, it was the largest one
spot construction site in Europe employing over 270,000 Europeans at one time.
Previous names
Landstuhl Air Base, 5 August 1952
Ramstein Air Base, 1 June 1953
Landstuhl and Ramstein were separate bases until 1
December 1957
RamsteinLandstuhl Air Base, 1 December 1957
Ramstein Air Base, 15 August 1958 present
Major USAF units assigned
86th Air Base Group, 5 April 1952 14 November
1968
86th Wing (various designations), 21 August
1952 18 November 1960; 31 January 1973 present
(86th Air Base Group (later under various
designations) assigned as subordinate unit, 21 August 1952)
86th Air Division, 18 November 1960 14 November
1968
7030th Combat Support Group, 6 April 1953 1 May
1960
7030th Air Base Wing, 5 October 1966 14 June 1985
Twelfth Air Force, 27 April 1953 1 January 1958
7486th Air Defense Group, 1 May 1954 25
September 1957
322d Air Division, 22 March 1954 12 August 1955
322d Airlift Division, 23 June 1978 1 April 1992
7455th Tactical Intelligence Wing, 1 September
1985 1 July 1992
Seventeenth Air Force, 15 November 1959 7
October 1972; 1 October 2008 24 April 2012
HQ, Atlantic Air Rescue Center (various designations),
8 October 1961 30 June 1973
26th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, 5 October
1966 31 January 1973
HQ, USAFE, 10 March 1973 present
306th Strategic Wing, 15 August 1976 30 June
1978
7th Air Division, 1 July 1978 1 February 1992
316th Air Division, 14 June 1985 1 May 1991
NHQ119 Civil Air Patrol Ramstein Cadet
Squadron Unit 3395, 1984 present
377th Combat Support Wing, 14 June 1985 1 May
1991
435th Air Base Wing, 15 January 2004 16 July
2009
435th Air Ground Operations Wing, 16 July 2009present
38th Combat Support Wing, 24 May 2005 30 June
2007
521st Air Mobility Operations Wing, 4 September
2008 present