The stated reason for a new hospital, faster transit, addressed no real medical problem.

Evidence

Another justification given for the new facility is decreasing the transit time between the runway at Ramstein and the hospital. So I asked whether, medically speaking, there are any problems transporting people over the fifteen-to-twenty-minute drive between Ramstein and Landstuhl. “No,” the surgeon said, “because they are very close.” In his time at the hospital, he told me, he had seen “no adverse incidents,” and he believed there had never been any such incidents in transit. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 803