260 rotational U.S. Army troops arrive in Lithuania

  • 2016-05-04
  • BNS/TBT-STAFF/VILNIUS
Lithuania’s National Defence Ministry confirmed that a new shift of rotating United States’ Army troops were deployed to Lithuania this week.  The 260-strong 10th shift has been stationed at the Rukla military base in central Lithuania.   They will remain there for training until late June this year.  The U.S. has been maintained a rotating presence of its ground forces in Lithuania and the other Baltic States since the spring of 2014 in response to the Kremlin’s annexation of Crimea and military actio...
 
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