‘We love our Americans’: the German town rocked by Trump’s plan to withdraw US troops

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The Pentagon announced Friday it will reduce US troop presence in Germany by 5,000 personnel—approximately 15% of the 36,400 active-duty forces stationed there—by cancelling a planned battalion deployment, following President Trump's directive. The withdrawal threatens Landstuhl's economy and deeply rooted German-American community ties, with local residents and US military personnel expressing concern about job losses and the erosion of decades-long cultural and familial bonds.

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American soldiers have been part of life in Landstuhl since 1945, giving the area a unique US-German identityDespite Donald Trump’s frequent bluster, Nadine Firmont said the US president’s move to pull American troops out of Germany had hit her town like a bombshell. “I have to tell you I was honestly shocked,” said Firmont, 45, who works at a high school in Landstuhl, south-west Germany, the heart of the largest American military community outside the US.

‘We love our Americans’: the German town rocked by Trump’s plan to withdraw US troops

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