The US military’s largest base outside the US just got its biggest ammo delivery in 20 years

US Air Force/Senior Airman Joshua Magbanua

• The 86th Munitions Squadron at Ramstein air base in Germany got about 100 containers of munitions this month.
• That’s the largest shipment of ordnance the unit has gotten since 1999.
• It comes as the unit, and NATO forces in Europe, increase their deterrence posture amid heightened tensions with Russia.

Roughly 100 containers of a variety of weapons have arrived at Ramstein air base in Germany this month — the most munitions the base has gotten this century.

Ramstein, opened in 1953, is the headquarters of the US Air Force in Europe and Africa and of NATO’s Allied Air Command. The base is part of the Kaiserslautern Military Community, which includes Ramstein and other, smaller bases in a rural part of southwest Germany.

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