Make It Snappy: US Rushes to Transfer 4,000 Troops to Baltics, Poland, Romania
SputnikNews.com
15.12.2016
Senior Polish and US defense officials have announced that the transfer of 4,000 Third Brigade combat troops to the Baltics, Poland and Romania from Fort Carson, Colorado, has been accelerated.
Polish Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz made the announcement on December 14 in the town of Zagan in Poland, where he met with Lieutenant-General Ben Hodges, commander of US land forces in Europe, according to the Associated Press.
While the US had originally planned to station four battalions in the Baltics, Poland and Romania by May 2017, Hodges said this has been moved forward to early January. Mr. Macierewicz, who helped found the Workers Defense Committee (the forerunner of Solidarity) in Poland, said he was “very happy” at the decision.
Hodges went on to say the Third Brigade Combat team, part of the US Fourth Infantry Division, was already en-route to the German port of Bremerhaven, and its equipment was currently being loaded onto ships. The troops and equipment will arrive January 6, 2017 and immediately be deployed in order to establish how quickly the force can move “from port to field”.
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