IMCOM to Provide Base Support at Eastern European Locations0

• Mission Support/Community Partnerships
• July 28, 2016

The Army’s Installation Management Command will be assuming responsibility for base operations at locations in Bulgaria and Romania that are serving as hubs for U.S. military training missions. IMCOM-Europe will add 49 jobs to camps at Novo Selo Training Area in Bulgaria and Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base in Romania, reported Stars and Stripes. Army staff at those two locations will be under the command of the garrison at Ansbach, Germany. “We think we can get in there and we can provide a service to U.S. Army Europe and quite frankly free them to focus on their core competencies, which are preparing formations and … to assure allies and deter enemies,” said Michael Formica, region director for IMCOM-E. The military will rotate larger formations through the training sites in the year ahead as part of DOD’s effort to enlarge its presence in Eastern Europe. Services delivered by IMCOM-E will be limited however. “We have a philosophy — Spartan plus wifi,” Formica said. “We’re not building little Americas inside those camps. We’re going to make sure we have those essentials covered.”