CoBases – US Military Bases

Category: Belgium

  • US Army Garrison Brussels

    The United States Army Garrison Brussels is the US Army liason to NATO headquarters and also to the European Units which are housed in Brussels. The United States Army Garrison Brussels mission is to perform the executive functions in support to all the US government agencies including the Department of States, Department of Defense and other US government personnel with their families designated in Brussels because of the presence of NATO headquarter. It is responsible for the different logistic and administrative functions in supporting the 2,700 people living in the base including their families. It also supports the Canadian Forces with their families that are assigned in USAG Brussels through a bilateral agreement.

    US Army Garrison Brussels Facts

    The services offered by USAG Brussels are the Army Post office, Consignment Shop, Barber Shop, Housing Office, Education Center, Transportation Division, engineering team, a Chapel, Finance Office, Food Court, Army Air Force Exchange Service Shoppette and a branch of Andrews Federal Credit Union. USAG Brussels aside from being the base for the US personnel working at NATO offers its support to the Defense Attache office at the US embassy, Brussels American School, Canadian military delegation to NATO and the office of the Defense Covperation. There are no military housing facilities in USAG Brussels but there is a designated office that will assist in the leasing and location of housing to the military family.

    Army Garrison Brussels Practice

    Soldier gets diploma at US Army Garrison Brussels

    logo of Garrison Brussels

    real action practice at US Army Garrison Brussels

    The USAG Brussels is 60 minutes drive from Chievres Garrison near Belgium and the USAG Shinnen and five minutes drive to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Brussels is situated i150 miles from Amsterdam and 220 miles from Paris. The garrison’s compound is just five minutes drive from the NATO Offices.

    The United States Army Garrison has its non-combat mission in servicing the 30th Signal Battalion, a support and communication unit.

  • US Army Garrison Benelux

    The United States Army Garrison (USAG) Benelux is part of the United States Armed Forces whose NATO operation covers in Belgium, Great Britain, the Netherlands, North Germany, Luxemburg and France. The USAG Benelux has it’s headquarter in Chievres Air Base and the Benelux army base also offers its support to the USAG Brussels and the USAG Schinnen. The US Army Garrison Benelux mission in the Armed Forces is to offer the joint military and the different agencies the support for the US personnel and the NATO in all its worldwide operations.

    US Army Garrison Benelux Facts

  • Website: Visit USAG Benelux Website ›
  • Location: Belgian town of Chièvres
  • Phone: 011-49-711-680-113
  • Latitude: 50.575833
  • Longitude: 3.831
  • DSN: 314-430-1110

    • USAG Benelux history begins it was assigned as the 80th ordnance Group and was started it operation in Luneville, France on January 25, 1945.  It stopped its operation later in that same year at Ft. Benning, Georgia and once again in operation in 1954 at Red River Arsenal in Texas.  On 1966 when the USAG Benelux was assigned to Vietnam it was designated as the 80th General Support Group. After being active for more than five years with thirteen different operations in Vietnam, the army base again stopped its operation. On August 30, 1984, the 80th ASG was again reactivated at Chievres, Belgium and united with the NATO/SHAPE Support Group and it was moved later in that same year to Caserne Daumerie.

    Soldiers at US Army Garrison Benelux

    Garrison Benelux Tank

    US Army Garrison Benelux HQ

    Soldiers at US Army Garrison Benelux

    Classroom at US Army Garrison Benelux

    At present, the Chievres Air Base is the home for the 390th Airlift Squadron which transports the supply and the employees of the NATO forces around Europe. The current plan of the base that was built last 2007 paved the way to additional projects, army lodge and the new base commissary. USAG Benelux offers housing to their active duty personnel which include the newly renovated housing projects for their officers and the apartments for their rank and file personnel that can accommodate six hundred families residing in the base.