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| U.S. Military baselets in Bulgaria? |
| 2005-01-12 |
| The United States Congress will consider a list of eight military bases in new NATO member Bulgaria to use jointly with its troops, the daily Dnevnik reported Wednesday. The daily quoted NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe Gen. James Jones and Bulgarian Army Chief of Staff Gen. Nikola Kolev the bases in question include the Graf Ignatievo and Bezmer airfields, the Sarafovo civilian airport, the port of Burgas, the Atia naval base, the Novo Selo ground forces practice ground and two defunct army facilities, whose location was not disclosed. On Wednesday a Ministry of Defence spokesman said the U.S. was looking just at [the Bezmer, Atia and Novo Selo facilities]. Jones said the bases in Bulgaria, should not be seen as American military outposts. [T]hey would be smaller than current bases in Western Europe that the Pantagon is planning to close down. (see? "baselets"!) The new facilities will have logistic functions and will be used to train U.S. and NATO troops, Dnevnik quoted Joens as saying. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 Specializing in surface-to-air missiles, no doubt. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-01-12 5:32:28 PM |
| #1 Cantonment? |
| Posted by: Don 2005-01-12 5:20:46 PM |