From left: BG Keith Gallagher (Commander, Europe Regional Medical Command), Defense Minister Jung, Ambassador Timken, LTG Gary D. Speer (Deputy Commanding General, USAREUR)

Ambassador Timken and his wife with representatives of the German Cancer Research Center Heidelberg

German Minister of Defense and U.S. Ambassador Visit Landstuhl Regional Medical Center
April 11, 2008. U.S. Ambassador William R. Timken, Jr. and German Minister of Defense Dr. Franz Josef Jung visited the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center on April 11. For Defense Minister Jung it was the first visit to the largest American hospital outside the United States. Landstuhl Regional Medical Center provides care for military personnel and their families within European Command, and is also the evacuation and treatment center for all injured U.S. service members and contractors as well as for members of the coalition forces stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The following day, Ambassador Timken and his wife Sue visited the German Cancer Research Institute in Heidelberg.