By Lt. Cmdr. Mike Billips, Naval Support Facility Deveselu
Public Affairs
CARACAL, Romania (NNS) -- U.S. Navy Sailors stationed at
Naval Support Facility (NSF) Deveselu, Romania, participated in a
oath-of-enlistment ceremony for the Romanian Army in the nearby city of
Caracal, June 19.
Several hundred new service members were sworn in after
completing a four-month course of instruction, according to Captain-Commander
Razvan Bratulescu, chief of staff for the Romanian 99th Military Base, which is
co-located with NSF Deveselu on a former MiG fighter base.
Capt. William Garren, NSF Deveselu commanding officer, was
among the reviewing officials for the ceremony, accompanied by a combined honor
guard from NSF Deveselu, its principal tenant command Aegis Ashore Missile
Defense System Romania, and the 99th Military Base. Garren said the ceremony
and pass-in-review by the 1st Instructional Battalion "Olt" reminded
him of his own boot-camp graduation in 1977 in Orlando, Florida.
"I realized that their enlistments are not much
different from ours," Garren said.
U.S. and Romanian military members from the Deveslu base
have participated together in several military and civil ceremonies since NSF
Deveselu was established in October 2014. In addition to securing the outer
security perimeter of the base, the 99th acts as a liaison to other Romanian
military units for the U.S. base.
NSF Deveselu is home to an Aegis Ashore Missile Defense
System tenant command. Aegis Ashore is a land-based version of the Aegis
Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) System currently deployed on U.S. Navy ships,
but deploys the SM-3 missile only.
When completed, about 200 U.S. military, government
employees and contractors will work on the base located in south-central
Romania's Olt County.
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