Romania's Defence Minister Mircea Dusa (L) gestures to President Traian Basescu (C) and James N. Miller, U.S. Under secretary of Defense for Policy, during the official ground breaking ceremony of the site for U.S. Aegis Ashore missile defense facility, located in a former airbase from Deveselu that will form part of a shield to protect Europe next to Deveselu village, 182 km (113 mile) east of Bucharest October 28, 2013. The missile defense system is part of the European Phased Adaptive Approach, which is the U.S. contribution to NATO's missile-defense mission, and it will be fully operational in 2015, officials said. REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel (ROMANIA - Tags: MILITARY POLITICS)