It’s mostly semantics. They have a ‘Presence’ but they don’t have a base.
Who it is usually depends on training needs and what equipment they just bought. They come and go over the years. They usually get stuck in empty/underutilized parts of our various bases and allowed to sit in on ongoing training we already have going for our own guys. Currently it’s the Netherlands, Singapore, and RAF. Netherlands and RAF both focusing on the F-35. Singapore on the F-15.
Only permanent foreign presences I know of off hand. NATO member states send pilots for training on joint operations/cooperation to Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas. Though that’s less a permanent presence and more Sheppard just has the infrastructure in place already. So if any joint Airforce NATO training occurs. It’s usually there.
The German Army maintains an R&D/Logistics Office in Virginia. Largely its main concern is purchasing equipment and coordinating joint research projects with American Defense Contractors and the Military and their opposite numbers in Germany. And it’s mostly there because of German bureaucracy requiring a near perpetually staffed liaison/acquisition office.
It’s mostly semantics. They have a ‘Presence’ but they don’t have a base.
Who it is usually depends on training needs and what equipment they just bought. They come and go over the years. They usually get stuck in empty/underutilized parts of our various bases and allowed to sit in on ongoing training we already have going for our own guys. Currently it’s the Netherlands, Singapore, and RAF. Netherlands and RAF both focusing on the F-35. Singapore on the F-15.
Only permanent foreign presences I know of off hand. NATO member states send pilots for training on joint operations/cooperation to Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas. Though that’s less a permanent presence and more Sheppard just has the infrastructure in place already. So if any joint Airforce NATO training occurs. It’s usually there.
The German Army maintains an R&D/Logistics Office in Virginia. Largely its main concern is purchasing equipment and coordinating joint research projects with American Defense Contractors and the Military and their opposite numbers in Germany. And it’s mostly there because of German bureaucracy requiring a near perpetually staffed liaison/acquisition office.