On September 25 DV and Media Day of multinational ground-based air defence exercise Exercise Tobruq Legacy 20 will take place at the Lithuanian Air Force Base in Šiauliai (Lakūnų g. 3). The multinational exercise Lithuania is hosting has pulled together approx. 900 troops deployed by the Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and the United States.

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September 21, 32 volunteer soldiers of the 5th Territorial Unit, Vytis Military District, National Defence Volunteer Force, attended a deployment ceremony at the Castle of Biržai courtyard before leaving for the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), Gao province, eastern part of the country, to serve as the 8th rotation of the Force Protection Unit. They will be responsible for force security in the military base territory and serve with German soldiers.

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On September 14 – 20 fighter aircraft conducting the NATO Air Policing Mission in the Baltic states carried out 8 alert scrambles to identify and escort military aircraft of the Russian Federation in the international airspace over the Baltic Sea.

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On September 22 Minister of National Defence Raimundas Karoblis and Ambassador of the United States to Lithuania HE Robert S. Gilchrist will visit the Gen S.Žukauskas Training Area in Pabradė (Švenčionys region) to greet the new rotation of U.S. soldiers deployed to Lithuania. The officials will meet with the 2nd Brigade, 69th Regiment, 2nd Battalion Commander Lt Col George Bolton Jr., and view the equipment brought by the U.S forces. The U.S. soldiers are deployed with Abrams tanks, Bradley armoured fighting vehicles, all-terrain vehicles, etc., to Lithuania for several weeks of training. They arrived in early September.

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September 18, Vice Minister of National Defence Eimutis Misiūnas accredited Royal Air Force Squadron Leader Steve Gleisinger as next Defence Attaché of the United Kingdom to Lithuania at a ceremony at the Ministry of National Defence.

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September 17, Minister of National Defence of Lithuania Raimundas Karoblis and Minister of National Defence of Poland Mariusz Błaszczak discussed regional security situation, bilateral initiatives for strengthening regional security – cooperation of armed forces to ensure defensibility of the Suwalki Gap and the aspiration to have a persistent U.S. military presence in Europe and the region – and other topical aspects of NATO agenda at a meeting in Vilnius.

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