United States Army Europe (USAREUR) |
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Active | 1942–present |
Country | United States |
Branch | United States Army |
Type | Army Service Component Command / Theater Army |
Role | Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion |
Size | 736 regular, 525 civilian |
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Department of the Army U.S. European Command |
Installation | Lucius D. Clay Kaserne, Germany |
Motto(s) | Sword of Freedom |
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Website | US Army Europe |
Commanders | |
Commander | Lieutenant General Ben Hodges |
Deputy Commander | Major General Timothy P. McGuire |
Chief of Staff | Brigadier General Kai Rohrschneider (German Army) |
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United States Army Europe (USAREUR) is an Army Service Component Command of the United States Army. It is responsible for directing US Army operations throughout the United States European Command Area of Responsibility. During the Cold War, HQ USAREUR supervised ground formations primarily focused upon the Warsaw Pact militaries to the east as part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's (NATO) Central Army Group. Since the Revolutions of 1989, USAREUR has greatly reduced its size, dispatched US forces to Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, and increased security cooperation with other NATO land forces.
Headquarters, European Theater of Operations, United States Army was a United States Army formation which directed U.S. Army operations in parts of Europe from 1942 to 1945. It commanded Army Ground Forces, United States Army Air Forces, and Army Service Forces operations north of Italy and the Mediterranean coast, in the European Theater of World War II. It was bordered to the south by the North African Theater of Operations, US Army (NATOUSA), which later became the Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTOUSA).