After completing two months of exercise and training with troops of the Grand Duchess Birutė Battalion in Alytus, US rotational troops will now continue their exercise in Panevėžys, northern Lithuania. […]
On 1 July, a US Air Force‘s C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft landed at Vilnius International Airport bringing 80 members of the Germany-based 4th Infantry Division’s Mission Command Element (MCE) under the command of Brigadier General Michael Tarsa for combined training in Lithuania, the Ministry of National Defence Said. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė and John Boehner, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, discussed Lithuanian and regional security issues, the situation in Ukraine, and military and economic cooperation between Lithuania and the US during their meeting in Vilnius on Saturday. […]
The Saber Strike 2015 exercise held in the Baltic states by NATO has nothing to do with the Alliance’s alleged preparations for some annexation, says the chief of the training, US Major General Mark McQueen. […]
At a press conference at the Latvian Foreign Ministry, United States Ambassador to NATO Douglas Lute said that Russia‘s aggressive actions in Crimea and Donbas had completely changed the rules of the game. NATO must therefore prepare for future challenges and offer the necessary support to its partners. […]
About 40 soldiers of the Lithuanian National Defence Volunteer Forces will start an exercise in the United States with US troops on Monday. […]
Chiefs of defence of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have sent a letter to Commander of the US European Command General Philip Breedlove, asking to deploy a brigade-sized unit in the region. […]
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has so far refused to elaborate on the Baltic call for deployment of a permanent brigade in the territories in an effort to deter Russia. […]
The three Baltic states, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, will ask NATO leadership to deploy a permanent brigade in an effort to deter Russia, the Lithuanian army‘s spokesman said on Thursday. […]
A group of US soldiers have underlined NATO‘s collective defence commitment during their Friday visit to the Seimas of Lithuania. […]
John Shimkus, the only US Republican congressman of close Lithuanian descent, says he is proud of Lithuania being such a staunch ally of the United States, with the ties deeply rooted in the two countries’ long-standing political, economic and cultural collaboration. […]
US troops currently in Lithuania will Wednesday perform the first combat firing with main combat tanks M1A2 Abrams, the Ministry of National Defence said. […]
Roughly 250 soldiers from the company of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Division, US Army, and the Lithuanian Grand Duke Algirdas Mechanised Infantry Battalion are training at Exercise Joint Punch at the Gaižiūnų Training Area (Pabradė) this week. […]
Lithuanians of the US Capital region celebrated on Sunday, 15 February, the 97th anniversary of Lithuania as the modern day State, on one of the most blistery, cold days in recent memory. The day’s celebration started with a Latin mass in St. Matthews Cathedral. Monsignor Rolandas Makrickas of the Apostolic Nunciature to the United States welcomed the congregation the historic downtown cathedral. At the end of the service, Deanne Howes sang the Lithuanian national anthem, joined by well over 150 Lithuanians. The attendees walked the short distance on icy sidewalks to a nearby hotel for a breakfast. Washington Lithuanian Community leader, Danelė Vidutienė, introduced Žygimantas Pavilionis, Lithuania’s Ambassador to the United States. The Ambassador gave a brief overview of his tenure in the US Capital. […]
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