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U.S. technicians prepare helicopters for the transport on Feb. 12, 2017, in Bremerhaven, Germany. The U.S. Army has begun unloading dozens of Chinook, Apache and Black Hawk helicopters at the northern German port of Bremerhaven, to be moved to the Bavarian town of Illesheim, Germany. Some of them will be taken on stints to Lithuania and Romania. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Photo Credit: Ingo Wagner\/dpa via AP<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n The deployment is part of Operation Atlantic Resolve, which foresees the continuous presence of an American armored brigade combat team in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The mission is meant to help allay concerns from Poland and other NATO allies over an increasingly bellicose Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The U.S. Army has begun unloading dozens of Chinook, Apache and Black Hawk helicopters at a port in northern Germany so the aircraft can be moved to a base in Bavaria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":60973,"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":65,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[12,65],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1355],"class_list":["post-29977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-your-navy"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"UDUKS3YEIZA2XI5U5R23QMR5B4","arc_canonical_url":"\/news\/your-army\/2017\/02\/12\/u-s-helicopters-unloaded-in-germany-to-boost-military-presence\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\n