{"id":40179,"date":"2014-03-05T16:09:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T21:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=40179"},"modified":"2014-03-05T16:09:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T21:09:32","slug":"us-sending-fighters-to-baltics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40179","title":{"rendered":"US sending fighters to Baltics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a perfect example of how this administration uses the military to shore up it&#8217;s failed foreign policies, the Obama Administration has ordered six more F-15s and one KC-135 to react to the problems created by the Russians in the Ukraine, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/03\/05\/hagel-says-us-stepping-up-support-to-nato-allies-in-europe-amid-ukraine-crisis\/\">Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. currently provides four F-15s to what&#8217;s known as the Baltic Air Policing rotation. The additional aircraft will be sent from a base in Britain to Siauliai Air Base in Lithuania, the official said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This action comes at the request of our Baltic Allies and further demonstrates our commitment to NATO security,&#8221; the official said. <\/p>\n<p>In addition, the official said the Pentagon is now &#8220;consulting&#8221; with Polish allies on &#8220;increasing activities&#8221; in connection with a separate detachment mission in that country. Poland currently hosts 10 U.S. Air Force personnel as part of joint aviation training work. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if those military people staffing this new surge will get all of their COLA, or if they&#8217;ll be able to shop in a commissary when they come home. Maybe NATO will make accommodations for them<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a perfect example of how this administration uses the military to shore up it&#8217;s failed &hellip; <a title=\"US sending fighters to Baltics\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40179\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US sending fighters to Baltics<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}