As a side note, I'm often amazed at the presence US Army has in Germany with > 30,000 military personell and 36 military installations. It's been on a steady d

As a side note, I'm often amazed at the presence US Army has in Germany with > 30,000 military personell and 36 military installations. It's been on a steady decline in the past decades though. For comparison, German Army has 178,304 soldiers.