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In charge of four tanks, six months away from home. No problem for Norway’s female tank commander Lieutenant Silje Johansen Willassen, who recently deployed to NATO’s battlegroup in Lithuania.

Norwegian tanks have been deployed to Lithuania to support NATO’s enhanced forward presence in the region.

The company, of around 200 troops, belongs to Norway’s Telemark Battalion. They provided support to the German-led multinational battlegroup. The deployment lasted six months.

Commanding one of the platoons was Lieutenant Silje Johansen Willassen, Norway’s Telemark Battalion’s first female tank commander. Lieutenant Willassen discusses the deployment and what it takes to deploy overseas.

Footage of Lt Willassen working with her soldiers and tanks in Lithuania, and tanks from Norwegian Telemark Battalion and German ally exercising together.

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Music: Wondrous Instrumental Kallins Minucci

Meet the men and women who work every day for NATO. From soldiers to scientists, cyber experts to civilian emergency responders, NATO members are committed to supporting and protecting each other.

Tobi Rudolf is a German intern at NATO Archives. His job involves working with classified NATO documents older than 30 years. He goes through piles of files and selects those that he finds interesting or relevant for publishing online.

Music: Eclipsed Moon by Bangs Siddall.

On any NATO mission throughout the world, the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps is ready to deploy. It’s comprised of 1,600 troops from 23 nations and has the ability to lead up to 160,000 soldiers on the ground. Annual exercise ARRCADE FUSION tests their readiness.

The Allied Rapid Reaction Corps, or ARRC, is the high-readiness Land Component Command or Corps HQ for NATO, an operationally effective HQ capable of deploying worldwide on short notice.

As the holiday season approaches, we remember the thousands of NATO troops serving away from their families this Christmas. This piece was filmed in Orzysz, Poland, the home of one of NATO’s battlegroups. This battlegroup includes soldiers from the United States, Croatia, Romania and the United Kingdom.

As 2017 draws to a close, All of us at NATO would like to wish everyone across the Alliance a happy New Year.

Footage includes NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, as well as members of the NATO International Staff and National Delegations reading out a New Year greeting.

From all of us at NATO, we wish you a happy and peaceful New Year!

A look back on some of NATO’s most important events of 2017 including enhanced forward presence in the eastern part of the Alliance, Montenegro’s accession and contributions to Afghanistan and Iraq.

The Royal Danish Air Force took over the Baltic Air Policing mission from the U.S. Air Force at Šiauliai Air Base in Lithuania on 8 January 2018. The U.S. handed over control of the airspace during a brief ceremony, after which U.S. and Danish jets executed a flyover.

Footage includes scenes from the ceremony, shots of the jets flying and taxing, and interviews with Danish and NATO officials.

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Corporal Eduards Vovks is a member of the Latvian Honour Guard, whose duty it is to protect the Freedom Monument in central Riga and the Riga Castle. For him, freedom is a great treasure and independence is something worth defending.

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“Freedom for us is a great treasure and independence is something worth defending.” Meet Corporal Eduards Vovks, a member of the Latvian Honour Guard.

Meet the men and women who work every day for NATO. From soldiers to scientists, cyber experts to civilian emergency responders, NATO members are committed to supporting and protecting each other.

Senior Airman Megan Burgos is an avionics specialist for the US Air Force. She was on deployment working for NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission in Siauliai, Lithuania. Her team of five was responsible for preparing the F-15 fighter jets so they were ready to scramble, whenever they were called out.

Footage includes shots of Senior Airman Burgos working on an F-15 fighter jet along with soundbites.

The Cyber Defence Unit was set up as part of the Estonian Defence League to bring technical expertise from the civilian world into the Estonian defence forces to be deployed should a cyber emergency arise.

Interview with one of the founding members of the Unit, Andrus Padar, who is the current commander, speaking about why the Unit is important to defend Estonia’s highly digitised way of life.

Time-lapse, hyper-lapse and other various shots of Estonia’s capital Tallinn.