Posted on 01/18/2017 12:19:20 PM PST by Lorianne
Some 300 U.S. Marines landed in Norway on Monday for a six-month deployment, the first time since World War Two that foreign troops have been allowed to be stationed there, in a deployment which has irked Norway's Arctic neighbor Russia.
Officials played down any link between the operation and NATO concerns over Russia, but the deployment coincides with the U.S. sending several thousand troops to Poland to beef up its Eastern European allies worried about Moscow's assertiveness.
Marines from Camp Lejeune in North Carolina landed a little after 10 am CET (0900 GMT) at a snow-covered Vaernes airport near Trondheim, Norway's third-largest city, where temperatures were reaching -2 degrees Celsius (28 degrees Fahrenheit).
U.S. troops are to stay in Norway for a year, with the current batch of Marines being replaced after their six-month tour is complete.
A spokesman for the Norwegian Home Guards, who will host the Marines at the Vaernes military base, about 1,500 km (900 miles) from the Russian border, said the U.S. troops will learn about winter warfare.
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Obama is trying to his very last minute...to provoke a big war with Russia (for his master Soros)
and
Obama is STILL importing more and more IslamoNazi (terrorist aged) young men into USA, “from sea to shining sea”...
300 is a little more than a Marine Company. Just a blip on the screen but 300 Marines should be more than enough to protect Norway from Russian hordes.... :-)
We have had many exercises where the US Marines deployed to Norway for several months at a time during the Cold War. This is NOT new. It is just a training event that has not been done for the last decade or so. Norway is a part of NATO and this is a NATO exercise.
It’s more about our troops getting cold weather training & experience in mountain warefare. Sure, we could do it in Alaska or Colorado but Norway is NATO, so...
Let Norway protect themselves. Bring our troops home. Really true of all NATO countries.
I’m not sure it’s for Soros. I suspect it’s more for the US federal reserve banking institutions who don’t want Russia interfering with their monetary policy.
...the first time since World War Two that foreign troops have been allowed to be stationed there...
Why now?
This is silly. I was in Norway with the Marines. It is common for Marines to be in Norway. I was there with two regiments, waaaay more than 300. We do a lot of training there and with them. Russia knows and I do not believe they care. They certainly watch us though.
I heard one of them was so irked he momentarily set down his glass of vodka.
Norway is a NATO member and because of its long coastline, ship sheltering fjords, and natural resources it is hugely strategic (always has been, hence it being the first real battleground between the Nazis and Britain in 1939-40). Of course we have forces there for training. With a population a bit smaller than the State of Minnesota they wouldn’t present much of a problem on their own for an enemy that wants near unlimited access to the North Atlantic.
h0w would Russia interfer with the FedReserve’s money supply?
thanks
Just providing training to the Coastal Ranger Command (Kystjegerkommandoen or KJK) of the Norwegian Navy. A amphibious infantry unit trained to operate in littoral combat theatres, as naval infantry and coastal artillery. There is also an SBS type naval commando unit, the Marinejegerkommandoen.
Is this true? I thought winter operation exercises in Norway were a yearly staple of training for the USMC.
I thought so. I recall our Marines doing this as far back as the Seventies (or at least the early Eighties)
The current administration is convinced that the Russians hacked the playoffs and got Green Bay past Dallas. Heads will roll...
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