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In 2004, the U.S. military announced plans to extend the military footprint in Vicenza to include all elements of the 173rd ABCT. The new base annex was planned to be located on the disused civilian Dal Molin Airport , roughly 2 miles (3.2 km) from Caserma Ederle.
The United States Army has military complexes (bases are Italian territory and can be managed anytime by the Italian State authorities, [1] as the Sigonella crisis showed) in Italy: Caserma Del Din, near Vicenza (northern Italy, in the Veneto region; HQ of 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, also part of US Army Africa.)
The reorganized brigade consolidated at a single location in Vicenza, Italy. A second base was opened in Vicenza called Del Din and is the current headquarters of the 173rd. Del Din hosts 173rd Brigade Headquarters, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, the Brigade Support Battalion, and the Brigade Special Troops Battalion.
After a first short test flight on 23 July 2004 — in which a Fokker 50 operated by Denim Airways (later Denim Air) carrying a group of entrepreneurs and politicians from Vicenza took off from Vicenza Airport, flew over the Venetian Lagoon, and then returned to Vicenza — VoliRegionali was founded in August 2004. The initial corporate base of ...
The United States is the largest operator of military bases abroad, with 38 "named bases" [note 1] with active duty, national guard, reserve, or civilian personnel as of September 30, 2014. Its largest, in terms of personnel, was Ramstein AB in Germany, with almost 9,200 personnel.
Vicenza American High School (VHS) is a Department of Defense Education Activity high school located in Vicenza, Italy, on Villaggio Della Pace, a US garrison base. Previously on Caserma Ederle, a new building was opened on Villaggio Della Pace in August 2023. Parkhill was the primary architecture firm for this project.
The U.S. military maintains hundreds of installations, both inside the United States and overseas (with at least 128 military bases located outside of its national territory as of July 2024). [2] According to the U.S. Army, Camp Humphreys in South Korea is the largest overseas base in terms of area. [3]
Vicenza (/ v ɪ ˈ tʃ ɛ n t s ə / vih-CHENT-sə; Italian: [viˈtʃɛntsa] ⓘ; Venetian: Vicensa [viˈtʃeŋ(t)sa]) is a city in northeastern Italy.It is in the Veneto region, at the northern base of the Monte Berico, where it straddles the River Bacchiglione.