Relocate U.S. Africa Command from Stuttgart, Germany to the United States.

The redeployment of US Africa Command Headquarters (AFRICOM) from Stuttgart, Germany to a US host city would return $275M per year in economic activity to a local military friendly community and free up $125M per year for DOD to invest in partnership building and counter-terrorism operations in Africa. Under the current Unified Command Plan, AFRICOM is the only geographic combatant command whose headquarters is neither in its area of responsibility or on US soil. The resultant inefficiency from political isolation to increased travel and infrastructure expenditures requires the command to operate at $200M per year beyond its peers. Our country can ill-afford to short change operational and tactical units at the expense of a strategic planning staff.