More U.S. Warplanes, Troops Leave For NATO Baltic Mission
United States European Command
March 7, 2014
Additional Airmen, aircraft to support NATO policing mission in Baltics
48th Fighter Wing Public Affairs
ROYAL AIR FORCE LAKENHEATH, England:- The 48th Fighter Wing has sent additional aircraft and personnel to support NATO’s air policing mission in Lithuania, at the request of U.S. allies in the Baltics.
Six F-15C Eagles departed RAF Lakenheath and two KC-135 Stratotankers carrying more than 60 Airmen departed RAF Mildenhall March 6.
Nearly 150 Airmen and four F-15C Eagles from the 48th FW have been supporting the Baltic Air Policing mission out of Šiauliai Air Base, Lithuania, since January as the 48th Air Expeditionary Group.
“This is the advantage of being forward-based,” said Col. Mark Ciero, 48th Fighter Wing vice commander. “If called upon, we can quickly respond to support our allies and partners.”
Air policing is part of NATO’s “Smart Defense” model that incorporates allied nations conducting operations through shared capabilities and coordinated efforts to effectively accomplish missions. NATO countries rotate to provide Airmen and aircraft for the BAP mission, which is slated to continue through 2018.
In the last decade, 14 NATO nations have participated in this mission. This deployment marks the fourth rotation for U.S. forces.
For peace, against war: literary selections 
Will NATO/US hubris ever reduce? This is militarism really going wild, and pretence of “partners” full of neonazi gangsters, as in the “friends” in Syria, and the poor inhabitants of formerly advanced Syria and Iraq. The world is a battlefield, without doubt due to “us” good guys.
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Looks like it’s all or nothing for nato.
I believe war is now set in motion.
The adage that “In war, truth is the first casualty” rings true again.
This time it was Kiev, and the duly elected government of Yanukovich, and the entire Ukraine people that have become the casualty at the hands of a usa sponsored Jewish takeover. (as evidenced when izrehell celebrated when the coup emerged). Russia will forced to retaliate militarily at some point, as their borders will be lined with more us missiles otherwise.
And if successful, the next logical step will be the nato takeover of Russian natural gas to secure European needs, nato and thus the usa.
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