Editor's Foreword

44 The MiliTAry BAlANce 2010
PORTUGAL
US European Command • US Army 28; US Navy 29 ; USAF 663;
USMc 7 • 1 Support facility located at Lajes
QATAR
US central command • US Army 212; US Navy 3; USAF 181;
USMC 36 • elm 1 (APS) HBCT set (Empty – equipment in use)
SAUDI ARABIA
US Central Command • US Army 144; US Navy 25; USAF 81;
USMc 27;
OPM-SANG 500 (Combined Service)
SERBIA
NATO • KFOR • Joint Enterprise 1,475; 1 ARNG cbt spt bde
OSCE • Serbia 4
OSCE • Kosovo 11
SEYCHELLES
US Africa command • some MQ-9 Reaper UAV
SIERRA LEONE
IMATT 3
SINGAPORE
US Pacific command • US Army 8; US Navy 83; USAF 13;
USMc 18 • 1 log spt sqn • 1 spt facility
SPAIN
US european command • US Army 90; US Navy 689; USAF
350; USMc 145 • 1 air base located at Morón; 1 naval base
located at Rota
TURKEY
US european command • US Army 62; US Navy 8; USAF 1,514;
USMc 16 • 1 air base located at Incirlik; 1 support facility
located at Ankara; 1 support facility located at Izmir
US Strategic command • 1 Spacetrack Radar located at
Incirlik
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
US Central Command • US Army 2; US Navy 1; USAF 84; USMC
17
UNITED KINGDOM
US European Command • US Army 345; US Navy 333; USAF
8,596; USMc 93
FORCES BY ROLE
1 ftr wg located at RAF Lakenheath with (1 ftr sqn with
24 F-15C Eagle/F-15D Eagle, 2 ftr sqn with 24 F-15E
Strike Eagle); 1 tkr wg located at RAF Mildenhall, with
15 KC-135 Stratotanker; 1 special ops gp located at RAF
Mildenhall with 5 MC-130H Combat Talon II; 5 MC-130P
Combat Shadow; 1 C-130E Hercules
US Strategic command • 1 ballistic missile early warning
system (BMEWS) and 1 Spacetrack Radar located at
Fylingdales Moor
FOREIGN FORCES
Canada 3 USCENTCOM; 303 NORTHCOM (NORAD)
Germany Air Force: 23 Tornado IDS Strike/FGA ac
located at Holloman AFB (NM); 35 T-37B Tweet located at
Sheppard AFB (TX); 40 T-38A Talon located at Sheppard
AFB (TX); Missile trg located at Fort Bliss (TX); School
located at Fort Bliss (TX) (GAF Air Defence); some
(primary) trg sqn located at Goodyear (AZ) with Beech
F-33 Bonanza; some (joint jet pilot) trg sqn located at
Sheppard AFB (TX); 812 (flying trg) located at Goodyear
AFB (AZ); Sheppard AFB (TX); Holloman AFB (NM); FAS
Pensacola (FL); Fort Rucker (AL); Army: 1 (battle) Army
gp (trg) (army trg area) with 35 Leopard 2; 26 Marder 1; 12
M-109A3G
Italy Air Force: 38
United Kingdom Army, Navy, Air Force ε700