Posted on 05/02/2010 8:29:25 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
April 30, military contingents conducting the QRA Baltic Air-policing mission will change during a ceremony at the LAF Siauliai Air Base: Polish Air Contingent with four MiG-29 will replace French soldiers.
Polish forces are deploying air assets for the Baltic Air-policing mission for the third time (after service on January-March 2006 and March-June 2008 with MiG-29 fighter-jets). The majority of the present shift come from the 23rd Air Base and the 1st Tactical Squadron of the Polish Air Force based in Minsk Mazowiecki near Warsaw. The third Polish rotation named „Eagle 3" will comprise 100 troops, 8 of them pilots. The shift is led by Lt. Col. Robert Kozak, Commander of the 1st Tactical Squadron. Members of the shift from Minsk Mazowiecki will come to the Baltic States for the second time; they guarded the Baltic skies for the first time in 2006.
The rotation ceremony will be attended by the Commander Lithuanian Air Force Brig. Gen. Arturas Leita, Ambassador of France in Lithuania HE Francois Laumonier, Polish Ambassador in Lithuania HE Janusz Skolimowski, Ambassador of Poland in Latvia HE Jerzy Marek Nowakowski, Airspace Defence and Operations Commander of France Brig. Gen. Michel Léné, Commander of the 1st Tactical Air Wing and Acting Commander of the Polish Air Force Brig. Gen. Stefan Rutkowski, Commander of LAF Air Base Lt. Col. Audronis Navickas, members of Latvian and Estonian Air Forces, representatives of Siauliai Town.
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