It is at the Northern edge of the city of Pirmasens, approximately 15 miles (24 km) from the French border.
[2] The facility was captured on 21 March 1945 by the 71st Infantry Division, used as a war materials storage center, then was expanded by additional construction from the late 1950s through mid 1970s; in 1976 it was officially created as a full army base of its own right (US Military Community, Pirmasens).
Since return to German control of the majority of the base, additional construction, removal and modification of existing buildings has occurred.
The US Army Medical Materiel Center - Europe (USAMMCE) is still operational and continues to occupy its former location (relocated to Kaiserlautern.)
The unit guided, managed traffic control and served as a lightly armed escort for convoys carrying exotic weapons and their parts throughout Germany.
The US Army's 636th Ordnance Company (EOD) (with a housing base at Muenchweiler) guarded and maintained the then classified stocks of GB and VX nerve gas located at Site 59 in Clausen.