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NATO Air Headquarters changes name

USAFE News Story

Release Date: 6/30/2004

RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (USAFENS) - The NATO Headquarters, Headquarters Allied Air Forces North, located on Ramstein Air Base, Germany, is changing its name July 1 to Component Command-Air Headquarters Ramstein.

The name change reflects the new streamlined NATO Command Structure, which was born in 2002 as a result of the Prague NATO Summit.

The mission of CC-Air HQ Ramstein is designed to meet today's needs and tomorrow's challenges and includes:

  • Ensuring the security and territorial integrity of member nations within the area of functional responsibility through effective air policing
  • Maintaining the security of NATO nations in the NATO area of responsibility and beyond as directed through dynamic command and control of air operations
  • Contributing to the preservation of peace and promotion of stability through operations, co-operation activities, exercises and dialogue

    Together with a maritime and a land component command, CC-Air HQ Ramstein is under the operational command of Joint Force Command Headquarters Brunssum, formerly Regional Headquarters North Europe, in the Netherlands.



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