US troops will be stationed in Poland in January
The Commanding General the United States Army in Europe, Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, announced that 4,000 U.S. soldiers will be relocated to Poland as part of the NATO Atlantic Resolve mission in January 2017. During his visit to the Bundeswehr Academy in Osterholz-Scharmbeck (Lower Saxony), General Hodges said that the port of Bremerhaven in northern Germany is going to serve as a crossing base.
At the NATO summit in Warsaw in July 2016, it was decided to place four of the Alliance’s battalions in Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. Earlier, the Minister of National Defence of Poland, Antoni Macierewicz, said that the U.S. troops in Poland will be rotated every nine months. A heavily armored brigade from the United States will also be deployed, as well as a battalion group, to Poland. The command of all the battalion intended to strengthen NATO's eastern flank will be located in Poland.