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Our obligation to NATO can be satisfied by our Air Force elements stationed in Europe. Our ground forces in Germany, about 75,000 GIs with dependents have no real mission, are difficult to deploy and cost a fortune to maintain. Our ground forces should be brought home to occupy some of the bases we're (foolishly) thinking about closing. The only ground force unit that should remain in Europe is the 173rd Airborne. They're in Italy and, since they deploy by air, there's some advantage to having them forward based. Some of our Air Force elements can be repositioned to Central Europe to join our forces already there (at Taszar, Hungary) to financial and strategic advantage.

The only ground force unit that should remain in Europe is the 173rd Airborne.

I think you don't know a whole lot about where troops are station over there. We have three bases in Spain. Two airforce and one navy. Also had several communication sites. Both air bases have runways large enough for BUFF's. And one is the emergency landing spot for the shuttle. Are is Spain not in europe.