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Please see the discussion on the talk page. | Allied Forces Central Europe, or AFCENT, was a military installation in Brunssum, the Netherlands. This installation is comprised of members of the central European NATO countries, including American, Canadian, British, German, Belgian, and Dutch personnel. Image File history File links Stop_hand. ...
Brunssum is a municipality and a town in the southeastern Netherlands. ...
NATO 2002 Summit in Prague The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, the Atlantic Alliance or the Western Alliance, is an international organisation for collective security established in 1949, in support of the North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington, DC, on 4 April 1949. ...
The communication group located on the base is Central Region Signals Group, or CRSG, and it ensures communication throughout central europe.
One of the communication systems that is part of CRSG is the Communication Improvement System - 67, or CIP-67. This communication system is a line of site sytem using microwave radios and multiplexers posted in various sites throughout the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. The CIP-67 system is controlled by the FB-40 and FBM-40, which is a primitive computer system, used to monitor alarms on the network. One interesting piece of information to know about the FB-40 is the fact that it was originally designed for the German rail system, but not meeting their very strict specifications, NATO decided to purchase it to monitor the alarms on the CIP-67 system. Everyone in Central Europe should therefore be able to rest easy knowing a computer monitoring system that was not good enough for the German rail network is now being used to protect them and keep them safe during times of strife. Another piece of equipment that is used in the CIP-67 system is the Standard Interface Equipment, or SIE, and this is used to make a voice frequency channel from a multiplexor usable with a telephone. The telephone or phone (Greek: tele = far away and phone = voice) is a telecommunications device which is used to transmit and receive sound (most commonly voice and speech) across distance. ...
AFCENT has a very nice social life and is one of the nicer military installations that one can be assigned to. It is so nice that military members attempt to stay there for years and years. There is a large percentage of civilians at the installation, so much of the military feel of other installations is not present, making it a quite pleasant place to work. A civilian is a person who is not a member of a military. ...
On the base is Club 13, which is the all ranks club, and a lot of social activity takes place there. Club 13 is run by the British, so many acts from the United Kingdom perform there on the weekends. In addition to the all ranks club, AFCENT has a movie theatre, a drama club, a gymnasium, and a swimming pool. Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed. ...
Modern indoor gymnasium with pull-down basketball hoops Gym, a shortened form of gymnasium, refers to facilities intended for indoor sports or exercise. ...
50 meter indoor swimming pool A swimming pool, swimming bath, or wading pool is an artificially enclosed body of water intended for recreational or competitive swimming, diving, or for other bathing activities that do not involve swimming, e. ...
In 2004 AFCENT was redesignated AFNORTH, following the closure of the base that formerly held that title. Allied Forces North (AFNORTH) was the most northern NATO headquarter located at Kolsås outside Oslo. ...
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