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Richard Ulsh, a spokesman for Marine Corps Forces Europe.\u00a0<br\/><br\/>The vehicles and weapons were first transported to\u00a0Bremerhaven, Germany, from North Carolina. The heavy equipment was then loaded onto trains\u00a0and sent about 1,100 miles\u00a0to the Novo Selo Training Area in\u00a0Bulgaria, where about 160 Marines are deployed on\u00a0six-month rotations.<br\/><br\/>The new rotation, which was announced in June as part of the\u00a0European Reassurance Initiative, is the first of three Marine rotations that will move through Bulgaria.\u00a0The initiative is meant to soothe NATO allies concerned with Russian military aggression following the forceful 2014 annexation of Crimea.<br\/><br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia has also sometimes employed aggressive Cold War-era style tactics\u00a0against the U.S. and its NATO allies&#8217; planes and ships. In addition, Russian military jets were recently tracked flying as\u00a0close as 40 miles from the U.S. border\u00a0\u2014 something that hasn&#8217;t happened since the end of the Cold War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marines from five East Coast units were the first to deploy with the new\u00a0Combined Arms Company in July. It includes members of\u00a02nd Tank Battalion; 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion; 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion;\u00a0Combat Logistics Battalion 6;\u00a0and 1st Battalion, 10th Marines. They are led by Capt. Dan Whitt, Ulsh said, and fall under the Romania-based Black Sea Rotational Force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While deployed, Ulsh said the Marines will train alongside Romanian and Bulgarian troops. There are also plans in the works for the company to train with\u00a0forces from the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, as well as the Republic of Georgia, among others, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;There is much planning left to be done on this front,&#8221; Ulsh said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Luke Coffey, a former Army captain who&#8217;s now a fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a Washington think tank, said the new Bulgaria-based unit sends a strong symbolic message to Russia and allies in the region that the U.S. is committed to European stability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;From the Bulgarians point of view,\u00a0having the American\u00a0flag flying there\u00a0is proof to anyone that the U.S.\u00a0is committed to the region,&#8221; Coffey said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s especially important around a historically contested area like the Black Sea region, he said. Seeing the Marine Corps expand its Black Sea Rotational Force to a neighboring country will create a culture of military cooperation in the region, which lays the foundation for larger-scale training and operations there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Because this seed has been planted through these exercises and rotations, it makes &#8216;going big&#8217; go that much easier,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"979\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/635751572530573206-mar-tanks-eastern-europe-2jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/635751572530573206-mar-tanks-eastern-europe-2jpg.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/635751572530573206-mar-tanks-eastern-europe-2jpg.jpg?resize=300,184 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/635751572530573206-mar-tanks-eastern-europe-2jpg.jpg?resize=768,470 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/635751572530573206-mar-tanks-eastern-europe-2jpg.jpg?resize=1024,627 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/635751572530573206-mar-tanks-eastern-europe-2jpg.jpg?resize=1536,940 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Marines with Weapons Company, Battalion Landing Team 2\/4, head to a mock raid in a light armored vehicle July 24. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span>Marines head to a mock raid in a light armored vehicle. Marines with the Bulgaria-based Combined Arms Company now have six LAVs.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span>Photo Credit: Sgt. Scott M. Biscuiti\/Marine Corps<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, with the size of the rotation being a company of Marines to start, Coffey said the U.S. military must be realistic about how much it can actually deter a major military like Russia&#8217;s. The Army stood up similar company-sized rotations in the Baltic states and Poland, which are strategically important, he said, but still relatively small.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;At the end of the day,\u00a0if Russia decided to invade Estonia, a company of soldiers isn\u2019t going to do much,&#8221; Coffey said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marines with a Bulgaria-based unit designed to deter Russian aggression will be equipped with some serious firepower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":25646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":69,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[12,69],"tags":[],"coauthors":[2602],"class_list":["post-11142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-your-marine-corps"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"T6HCNPYWGBCYBPIXQHAW3OCZSQ","arc_canonical_url":"\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2015\/08\/17\/marine-corps-sends-tanks-weapons-to-eastern-europe\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - 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