Mission & Vision

The mission of the U.S. European Command is to conduct military operations, international military partnering, and interagency partnering to enhance transatlantic security and defend the United States forward.

We do this by establishing an agile security organization able to conduct full spectrum activities as part of whole of government solutions to secure enduring stability in Europe and Eurasia.

Area of Responsibility and Scope of Operations

U.S. EUCOM is one of the United States’ two forward-deployed Geographical Combatant Commands, whose area of focus covers almost one-fifth of the planet, including all of Europe, large portions of Asia, parts of the Middle East and the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans. The command is responsible for U.S. military relations with NATO and 51 countries on two continents with a total population of close to a billion people.

From its state-of-the-art plans and operations center, the command directs the operation of more than 100 thousand military and civilian personnel operations across 10.7 million square miles or 27.7 million square kilometers of land and 13 million square miles or 33.6 million square kilometers of ocean.

The command is also responsible for maintaining the quality of life, including health care and schools, for almost 130 thousand military family members living in Europe.

Headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, EUCOM is a joint forces community of approximately 1,000 U.S. soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and government civilians, who work and live at four different locations around the city.

Component Services

U.S. European Command is comprised of components from all of America’s military services who provide ready forces to provide regional security:

• U.S. Army Europe trains, equips, deploys and provides command and control of forward-deployed land forces, able to support and conduct the full spectrum of joint, and combined multi-national operations, and engagement activities.
• U.S. Naval Forces Europe is prepared for future challenges and mission requirements by operating, training, maintaining and sustaining combat-ready naval forces.
• U.S. Marine Corps Forces Europe taps pre-positioned assets to rapidly deploy expeditionary forces and equipment and conduct a wide array of operations.
• The United States Air Forces in Europe executes the EUCOM mission with forward-based air power to provide forces for global operations, ensure strategic access, assure allies, deter aggression and build partnerships.
• Special Operations Command Europe provides tremendous flexibility throughout a full range of military operations including combat, special operations, humanitarian assistance, non-combatant evacuations and joint-combined military operations.

Stronger Together

These components teamed with our long-time allies and newfound partners in the region provide cooperative solutions to a mutual security challenge.

Continuing to build these enduring partnerships in the region ensures we are "Stronger Together."