The United States went to meet Poland, placing on its territory the first permanent military garrison
The United States opens the eighth permanent American garrison in Europe and the first in Poland, following repeated requests from Warsaw. The solemn ceremony of opening a new place of permanent deployment of the US military will be held in Poznan. This is reported by the Ministry of Defense of Poland.
The ceremony will represent the renaming of US troops in Poznań from the Regional Support Group (Area Support Group Poland, ASG-P) to the US Army Garrison (US Army Garrison Poland, USAG-P). In fact, the status of the permanent presence of Americans on the territory of Poland is simply fixed. This garrison no longer belongs to the temporary, moving into the category of permanent in the European space.
Warsaw is really happy about this, the Polish authorities have been striving for more than one year to deploy as many American troops as possible on the territory of the republic. In addition, the Poles insisted that part of the American troops should be there on a permanent basis, even offering to build a military base at their own expense. And now the dream has finally come true. The importance of this moment is emphasized by the participation in the renaming of Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blashak, who also holds the chair of Deputy Prime Minister.
Thus, today the American army has eight permanent garrisons in Europe, one of which is open in Poland.
- said Blaschak.
Recall that at the moment there are about 10 American troops stationed in Poland. Poland and the Baltic countries are US outposts on NATO's eastern flank, closest to Russia.
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