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NATO Air Base Geilenkirchen is located in the Federal Republic of Germany, near the village of Teveren and six kilometers west of the town of Geilenkirchen. The base is known to the local population as ‘Flugplatz Teveren’ and has an area of 620 hectares (1,500 acres). Part of the base perimeter is adjacent to the German-Dutch border.
Geilenkirchen (German pronunciation: [ˈɡaɪlənkɪʁçn̩] ⓘ, Ripuarian: Jellekerke [ˈjæləˌkæʀ˦(ə)kə]) is a town in the district Heinsberg, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated near the border with the Netherlands , on the river Wurm , approx. 15 km (9.3 mi) north-east of Heerlen and 20 km (12.4 mi) north of Aachen .
See Category:Military installations of NATO. Headquarters SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe) in Casteau, north of Mons , since 1966 (before in Paris). SHAPE is since 2003 the headquarters of Allied Command Operations (ACO) controlling all allied operations worldwide.
Royal Air Force Geilenkirchen more commonly known as RAF Geilenkirchen is a former Royal Air Force station in the North Rhine-Westphalia region of Germany, built by the British who used the facility mainly as an airfield for RAF fighter squadrons from May 1953 until 21 January 1968.
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BERLIN (Reuters) -The NATO air base in the German town of Geilenkirchen has raised its security level "based on intelligence information indicating a potential threat," it said late on Thursday.
Three of NATO's members are nuclear weapons states: France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. NATO has 12 original founding member states. Three more members joined between 1952 and 1955, and a fourth joined in 1982. Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has added 16 more members from 1999 to 2024. [1]