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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.) Caserma Ederle, near ...
Beginning in the fall of 1958, the LA-40 and LA-43 Nike sites were manned by the 720th AAA Missile Battalion of the California Army National Guard. Eventually, California National Guard units assumed responsibilities for manning the other sites. In 1968, the Army deactivated LA-94. LA-29 closed 3 years later.
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.
The United States Army's Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) Programs are executed within the Installation Management Command G9, Family and MWR Directorate, [1] following the deactivation of the Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation Command on 3 June 2011 in a ceremony at Fort Sam Houston. [2]
The 3rd Missile Brigade "Aquileia" (Italian: 3ª Brigata Missili "Aquileia") was an artillery brigade of the Italian Army active between 1959 and 1991. The brigade was stationed in North-Eastern Italy and armed with missile and artillery systems capable of firing tactical nuclear weapons as part of Italy's participation in NATOs nuclear sharing programme.
In 1978, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began planning for a construction mission in Israel managing construction of two Israeli Air Force bases that had to be relocated in compliance with the Camp_David_Accords. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, North Atlantic Division set up its first offices in the country in April 1979.
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.