Landstuhl is a Verbandsgemeinde (administrative unit) in the district of Kaiserslautern in Germany. It is perhaps best known because of the installation of United States military personnel. The Landstuhl Army Medical Center, a U.S. Army Medical Command (MEDCOM) post, is often the first stop for American casualties leaving the ongoing occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan. A Verbandsgemeinde (plural Verbandsgemeinden) is an administrative unit unique to the German Bundesland (federal state) of Rhineland-Palatinate. ... Kaiserslautern is a district (Kreis) in the south of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. ... The armed forces of the United States of America consist of the United States Army United States Navy United States Air Force United States Marine Corps United States Coast Guard Note: The United States Coast Guard has both military and law enforcement functions. ... U.S. Army Medical Command Patch The U.S. Army Medical Medical Command (MEDCOM) is a major command of the U.S. Army that provides command and control of the Armys fixed-facility medical, dental, and veterinary treatment facilities, providing preventive care, medical research, development and training institutions. ...
Sickingen, the prince of condottieri, was a solid mercenary and political marplot, whose daring deeds and murderous atrocities form a part of German legendary lore.
With his three impregnable fastnesses, Ebernburg, Landstuhl, and Hohenburg, with their adventurous soldiery, fleet-footed cavalry, and primed artillery, "who took to robbery as to a trade and considered it rather an honour to be likened to wolves" (Cammbridge Hist., II,154), a menace to the very empire, he was a most useful adjunct.
With Luther they had little in common, for both were impervious to all religious impulses, unless it was their deadly hatred of the pope, and the confiscation of church property and land.
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