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The 4,700 U.S. paratroopers dispatched to Poland<\/a> amid the ongoing Ukraine crisis<\/a> are building encampments and expected to train with Polish allies, while a small headquarters element has arrived in Germany and another 1,000 Stryker soldiers are setting up in Romania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, an experimental U.S. Army reconnaissance jet \u2014 dubbed Artemis<\/a> \u2014 spent Thursday cruising along a flight path that skirted Belarusian borders and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, according to flight data<\/a>. U.S. Army helicopters have also made flights in Polish airspace, including to evacuate an American<\/a> who had a medical condition in Kyiv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the exact plan for paratroopers deployed to Europe from their home base of Fort Bragg, N.C., remains unsaid. Officials with the XVIII Airborne Corps declined Army Times\u2019 requests to interview commanders on the ground, citing the tense situation and dynamic environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTask Force Dragon Soldiers in Poland and Germany are building out temporary encampments and assembly areas in support of our mission to reassure our NATO Allies,\u201d said XVIII Airborne Corps spokesman Col. Joe Buccino. \u201cThe NATO alliance is firm and our presence in Europe recognizes an abiding American commitment. We greatly look forward to beginning training with our Polish Allies in the coming days.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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U.S. troops of the 82nd Airborne Division recently deployed to Poland because of the Russia-Ukraine tensions are setting up camp at a military airport in Mielec, southeastern Poland, on Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022. About 4,700 additional U.S. troops are deployed to Poland, were some 4,000 U.S. troops have been stationed since 2017. (AP Photo\/Beata Zawrzel)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In recent weeks, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered 4,700 members of the 82nd Airborne Division<\/a> to deploy to Poland as a show of support to NATO allies. Another 300 soldiers from the XVIII Airborne Corps made their way to Germany, while 1,000 soldiers from the Germany-based 2nd Cavalry Regiment went to Romania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paratroopers in Poland are setting up at a military airport near Mielec, in the southeastern part of the country. None of those forces are poised to respond to a Russian incursion, the Pentagon has said, though the paratroopers could support American evacuees fleeing Ukraine into Poland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The paratroopers are led on the ground by Maj. Gen. Christopher Donahue<\/a>, who also commanded the Afghanistan evacuation out of Hamid Karzai International Airport in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 101st Airborne Division, out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky, also sent several hundred troops to Europe this week to support the XVIII Airborne Corps-led Joint Task Force Dragon. The air assault troopers include logistics personnel and headquarters staff, said unit spokeswoman Lt. Col. Kari McEwen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adding to the combat power in Poland is a 1st Infantry Division armored brigade, which began a nine-month rotation to the country in August. The brigade has 3,800 troops, 80 Abrams tanks, 15 self-propelled howitzers and 130 Bradley fighting vehicles. Rotations like that have been routine since 2014, when Russia annexed Ukraine\u2019s Crimea peninsula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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US Army General Christopher Donahue, left, commanding general of the 82nd Airborne Division, and Polish General Wojciech Marchwica speak to journalists after unloading vehicles from a transport plane arriving from Fort Bragg at the Rzeszow-Jasionka airport in southeastern Poland, on Sunday, Feb. 6, 2022. Additional U.S. troops are arriving in Poland after President Joe Biden ordered the deployment of 1,700 soldiers here amid fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine. Some 4,000 U.S. troops have been stationed in Poland since 2017. (AP Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A contingent of 160 Florida National Guard soldiers<\/a> deployed to Western Ukraine since November were ordered on Feb. 12 to leave the country amid an increasing concern of a Russian attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are more than 150,000 Russian troops arrayed around Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Austin recently visited Lithuania<\/a> to reassure the three Baltic nations that the U.S. would stand by them in the event of an attack. Western officials have increasingly warned in recent days that Moscow could invade Ukraine<\/a> at any time, although Russia has denied that it\u2019s planning an invasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI want everyone in Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia to know \u2014 and I want President Putin and the Kremlin to know \u2014 that the United States of America stands with our allies,\u201d Austin said during a news conference in Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Austin stopped short of promising a permanent deployment of a rotating battalion to the Baltics, which Lithuanian leaders requested, according to The Associated Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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