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The 1st Combat Communications Squadron is a military communications unit of the United States Air Force. [1] It is part of the 435th Air Ground Operations Wing, United States Air Forces in Europe. It is located at Ramstein Air Base, Germany.
Constructed between 1949 and 1952 by the French Army and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Ramstein Air Base is part of the larger Kaiserslautern Military Community (KMC), which houses around 54,000 American service members and over 5,400 U.S. civilian employees. Additionally, more than 6,200 German workers are employed within the KMC.
In January 2004, the wing was reactivated as the 435th Air Base Wing and assumed the overall host base support responsibilities at Ramstein Air Base, Germany [2] as a non-flying unit. In mid 2009, the 435th Air Base Wing was redesignated the 435th Air Ground Operations Wing , the second wing of its kind in the USAF.
C-23A over the Rhine Valley. The squadron was reactivated in 1977 to operate the Military Airlift Command (MAC) aerial port at Ramstein Air Base.It serviced transient C-5 Galaxy and C-17 Globemaster transports at Ramstein, loading and unloading cargo and also received airlifted equipment and personnel for United States Army Europe (USAREUR) forces units in Germany.
Herzo Base Herzogenaurach: closed 1992 Hessen Homberg Kaserne Hanau: closed 1990s Hindenburg Kaserne Ansbach: closed 1992 Hindenburg Kaserne: Würzburg: closed 1994 torn down Holbeinring Military Housing Heidelberg: closed 2013 Hospital Kaserne Bad Kreuznach: closed 2001 Hutier Kaserne Hanau: closed 2008 Jaeger Kaserne Aschaffenburg: closed 1992
On 28 March 1973 the group moved without personnel or equipment (WOPE) to Ramstein Air Base, West Germany, and was reassigned to the European Communications Area (AFCS MO-2, 15 March 1973). The European Communications Area later became the European Communications Division; European Information Systems Division; and then the European ...
Ramstein Air Base (IATA: RMS, ICAO: ETAR) is a United States Air Force installation located in Rhineland-Palatinate, southwestern Germany. It serves as the headquarters for the United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa (USAFE-AFAFRICA) and NATO Allied Air Command (AIRCOM).
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Europe Division was activated on July 1, 1974 in Frankfurt, Germany. The unit continued the construction missions and legacy of the former Engineer Command and other Army engineering organizations in Europe that grew following World War II.