> The US has a lot of random facilities in Europe (many colocated with current or former military bases of the host nation) as a result of all the post-ww2 nati

> The US has a lot of random facilities in Europe (many colocated with current or former military bases of the host nation) as a result of all the post-ww2 nation building and cold war geopolitics. That's also super clear in the map the sibling comment posted: most of the European bases are in an arc that follows the Iron Curtain. This particular base is close to Slovenia, which used to be in the Soviet sphere.