{"id":284892,"date":"2016-12-15T20:01:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T19:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-completes-upgrading-nato-base-in-estonia\/"},"modified":"2016-12-15T20:01:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T19:01:56","slug":"us-completes-upgrading-nato-base-in-estonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-completes-upgrading-nato-base-in-estonia\/","title":{"rendered":"US completes upgrading NATO base in Estonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US military has completed a $11.2 million project to upgrade an Estonian military base belonging to the North Atlantic treaty Organization (NATO), amid ongoing tensions between the US-led military alliance and Russia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Washington spent the money on building new sniper and machine-gun shooting ranges, maintenance facilities and a train loading area at the Tapa army base, which is located 80 kilometers (50 miles) southeast of the Estonian capital of Tallinn and is controlled by the US military.<\/p>\n<p>Major General John Gronski said Thursday that the facelift at the Tapa army base symbolized NATO\u2019s \u201cstrength and resolve\u201d in the Baltic region.<\/p>\n<p>The upgrade was part of Washington\u2019s commitment to NATO\u2019s growing deployments of weapons and troops to its eastern frontier with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The base has been used by American forces for training purposes and will host 800 British infantry and 300 French troops next year.<\/p>\n<p>NATO had announced in July that it would&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/12\/15\/498053\/US-Russia-NATO-Estonia-Tapa\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US military has completed a $11.2 million project to upgrade an Estonian military base belonging to the North Atlantic treaty Organization (NATO), amid ongoing tensions between the US-led military alliance and Russia. Washington spent the money on building new sniper and machine-gun shooting ranges, maintenance facilities and a train loading area at the Tapa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-284892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}