Countries With the Most US Military Bases

Naval Support Facility Deveselu in Romania is where the Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Facility is deployed, supporting NATO’s ballistic missile defense system. The system is designed to intercept cruise missiles and aircraft. Naval Support Facility Deveselu is one of three U.S. military facilities in Romania, a NATO member since 2004. The United States is modernizing its facilities in Romania and neighboring Bulgaria.

The U.S. Navy jointly operates communications facilities, called Area C-HFR (high frequency receiver), and other military bases with Australian forces in western Australia, in an area comprising three sites about 37 miles apart on a peninsula that separates the Exmouth Gulf from the Indian Ocean. The communications installation was set up to communicate with submarines and surface vessels in the Indian and western Pacific oceans.

Oman and the United States have had diplomatic relations for nearly 200 years. Those relations were deepened in 1981, when the sultanate signed an access agreement with the United States. Seeb is one of the three U.S. air bases located in the Middle Eastern country. It is a transportation and logistics hub near the international airport. The U.S. Navy also operates a facility on Masirah Island in Oman.

The Naval Support Activity Souda Bay is located on the northwest coast of the Greek island of Crete, in the Mediterranean Sea. The installation, one of four in Greece, provides services focused on combat readiness for ships, aircraft, and personnel. The U.S. Navy’s Souda Bay facility is also home to the Hellenic Air Force’s 115th Combat Wing.

The Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum, or HQ JFC Brunssum, was established in 1967 in the southern part of the Netherlands near Limburg. Its predecessor, HQ AFCENT (Headquarters Allied Forces Central Europe), had been located in Fontainebleau in France, but had to leave its headquarters after France withdrew from NATO’s integrated military command in 1966. At that time, coal mines closed in Limburg, the Netherlands offered the Henrik Mine infrastructure for NATO use. There are four other bases with U.S. military operations in the Netherlands.