CAMP HERKUS, Lithuania — American soldiers have found gracious hosts in Lithuania.

At this remote base, which opened in August and is now the temporary home of hundreds of American troops, government officials excitedly showed off the new 7-million-euro facility, which includes a gym stocked with state-of-the art treadmills and weight racks, rubber-turf basketball courts surrounded by container housing stuffed with bunk beds and gear, a PX selling cigarettes and candy, and a game hall where soldiers were playing first-person-shooter video games.

“I talked to the national security advisor and asked him to consider it and he said he would,” Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., who co-chairs the House Baltic Caucus, told Defense One last week, referring to the White House’s Jake Sullivan. “I talked to him this spring. I said he should put it on his agenda to review, I think that would be a smart option.” 

The National Security Council referred all questions to the Pentagon.