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• Oct 15, 2025

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• Oct 3, 2025

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• Sep 18, 2025

  Far From Home, Never Alone: How the USO Supports Service Members Deployed to Lithuania

  Since September 2024, the USO has operated its first staffed Center in Lithuania, establishing a vital presence in the Baltic region that has since provided consistent comfort, morale support and community for U.S. service members deployed in remote and challenging conditions.