US Armed Forces to Minimize Surplus, Obsolete Bases in Europe: Pentagon

The US is going to close 15 bases and offices in European nations including the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Italy and the Netherlands. This methodology will diminish around 2,000 US troops in the locale from 2018 to 2021.

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ABUJA, January 10 (Ooduarere), Alexander Mosesov — Under its most recent activity, went for lessening US military vicinity in Europe, Pentagon additionally needs to dispose of out-of-date and abundance framework, Department of Defense Spokesperson Mark Wright told Sputnik News Agency on Saturday.

“These EIC [European Infrastructure Consolidation] actions will also generate efficiencies by reducing excess or outdated infrastructure that our host nations can benefit from having returned,” Wright said.

On Thursday, the US Department of Defense published the alleged European Infrastructure Consolidation Actions, imagining the audit of US compels and offices in Europe.

The Pentagon representative included that the EIC methodology was intended to “totally minimize operational and energy structure affects on the US military and our [US] associates in Europe.”

As per EIC, 15 US bases and offices will be shut in nations including the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Italy and the Netherlands, bringing about an aggregate reduction of around 2,000 US troops in the locale from 2018 to 2021. As per the Pentagon’s announcement, the rebuilding will permit the US government to spare $500 million every year.

Royal Air Force (RAF) Mildenhall will be the biggest base to be shut and exchanged to the UK charge. Exactly 3,200 US staff from the base will be re-positioned somewhere else.

In the meantime, as indicated by the Defense Department’s Acting Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Installations & Environment John Conger, the move will be “incompletely balanced by the expansion of around 1,200 staff that will help the F-35s being positioned in RAF Lakenheath.”

The positioning of F-35s, single-motor propelled military aircraft joining air-to-ground and aerial operational ability with stealth engineering, in the United Kingdom in 2020 likewise falls inside the rules of the EI.