NATO Expansion

[Ian H]

You probably know this already but hey:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3578837.stm

New members (for the lazy) are Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia and Slovakia. They formally join on the 2nd of April, taking NATO membership to 26 (I'm not listing them, go Google :) ).

Albania, Croatia and Macedonia want to join, but it doesn't say if they have a timetable for it yet.

[Guttorm]

Hmmm, let's hope the Baltic navies start teaching their officers english then...

A estonian (Or latvian, can't remember) FPB participated in a NATO exercise some years ago...

The crew didn't speak english, so they didn't understand ANY of the orders...

They were spotted twice a day, when they left harbour, and when they came back... Noone knew where they were in between... :D