Editor's Foreword

42 The MiliTAry BAlANce 2010
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
US Strategic command • 1 Detection and Tracking Radar
located at Antigua Air Station
ARABIAN GULF AND INDIAN OCEAN
US central command • Navy • 5th Fleet • (5th Fleet’s
operating forces are rotationally deployed to the region
from either the Pacific Fleet or Atlantic Fleet.);
EQUIPMENT BY TYPE
1 CVN; 1 CG; 2 DDG; 1 FFG; 1 LHD; 1 LPD; 1 LSD; 1
T-AOE
Maritime Security Operations • 1 CG; 3 DDG; 1 FFG; 4 MCM;
5 PFC; 6 PBC (Coast Guard); 1 T-AKEH; 2 T-AO;1 ATF
NATO • Operation Ocean Shield 1 DDG
ASCENSION ISLAND
US Strategic command • 1 detection and tracking radar
located at Ascension Auxiliary Air Field
ATLANTIC OCEAN
US Northern Command • US Navy • 2nd Fleet
EQUIPMENT BY TYPE
6 SSBN; 2 SSGN; 24 SSN; 6 CVN; 9 CG; 22 DDG; 17 FFG;
3 PFC; 6 MCM; 2 LHD; 1 LHA; 4 LPD; 4 LSD
AUSTRALIA
US Pacific command • US Army 29; US Navy 21; USAF 63;
USMc 25 • 1 SEWS located at Pine Gap; 1 comms facility
located at Pine Gap; 1 SIGINT stn located at Pine Gap
BAHRAIN
US Central Command • US Army 18; US Navy 1,261; USAF 26;
USMc 142; 1 HQ (5 th Fleet)
BELGIUM
US European Command • US Army 685; US Navy 106; USAF
457; USMc 26
BOSNIA-HERzEGOVINA
OSCE • Bosnia and Herzegovina 10
BRITISH INDIAN OCEAN TERRITORY
US Strategic command • US Navy 213; USAF 32 • 1 Spacetrack
Optical Tracker located at Diego Garcia; 1 ground based
electro optical deep space surveillance system (GEODSS)
located at Diego Garcia
US Pacific command
1 MPS sqn (MPS-2 with equipment for one MEB) located
at Diego Garcia with 5 logistics and support ships
• 1 naval airbase located at Diego Garcia, 1 support
facility located at Diego Garcia
CANADA
US Northern Command • US Army 7; US Navy 30; USAF 83;
USMc 10
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC/CHAD
UN • MINURCAT 2
COLOMBIA
US Southern Command • US Army 52; US Navy 4; USAF 9;
USMc 19
CUBA
US Army 293; US Navy 482 located at Guantánamo Bay;
USMc 127 located at Guantánamo Bay
DjIBOUTI
US Africa command • US Army 190; US Navy 717; USAF 125;
USMc 133 • 1 naval air base located at Djibouti
EGYPT
MFO 688; 1 inf bn; 1 spt bn
EL SALVADOR
US Southern command • US Army 6; US Navy 1; USAF 2;
USMc 12 • 1 Forward Operating Location (Military, DEA,
USCG and Customs personnel)
GERMANY
US Africa command • 1 HQ located at Stuttgart
US Africa command • USAF • 1 HQ (17th Air Force) located
at Ramstein AB; 100 pers.
US european command • 1 Combined Service HQ
(EUCOM) located at Stuttgart–Vaihingen
US european command • US Army 38,537 (reducing; some
deployed to Iraq)
FORCES BY ROLE
1 HQ (US Army Europe (USAREUR)) located at
Heidelberg; 1 mech inf SBCT, 1 (hvy) cbt avn bde; 1
armd inf bde (plus 1 armd inf bde currently deployed
to Iraq)
EQUIPMENT BY TYPE
M-1 Abrams; M-2/M-3 Bradley; Stryker, M109; MLRS; AH-
64 Apache; CH-47 Chinook UH-60 Black Hawk
US European Command • US Navy 249
US European Command • USAF 14,856
FORCES BY ROLE
1 HQ (US Air Force Europe (USAFE)) located at
Ramstein AB; 1 HQ (3rd Air Force) located at Ramstein
AB; 1 ftr wg located at Spangdahlem AB with (2 ftr sqn
with 21 F-16C Fighting Falcon; 1 atk/FAC sqn with 12
A-10 Thunderbolt II; 6 OA-10A Thunderbolt II); 1 airlift
wg located at Ramstein AB, with 16 C-130E Hercules; 2
C-20 Gulfstream; 9 C-21 Learjet; 1 CT-43 Boeing 737
US European Command • USMC 318
GREECE
US european command • US Army 11; US Navy 291; USAF
57; USMc 12 • 1 naval base located at Makri; 1 naval base
located at Soudha Bay; 1 air base located at Iraklion
GREENLAND (DNK)
US Strategic command • 1 ballistic missile early warning
system (BMEWS) located at Thule; 1 Spacetrack Radar
located at Thule
GUAM
US Pacific command • US Army 40; US Navy 938; USAF
1,928; USMC 10 • 1 air base; 1 naval base
EQUIPMENT BY TYPE
3 SSN; 1 MPS sqn (MPS-3 with equipment for one MEB)
with 4 Logistics and Support vessels
HAITI
UN • MINUSTAH 4
HONDURAS
US Southern Command • US Army 228; US Navy 2; USAF 183;
USMc 8 • 1 avn bn with CH-47 Chinook; UH-60 Black Hawk