Romania's President Traian Basescu (R) salutes next to U.S. Vice Admiral James D. Syring during the official ground breaking ceremony of the site for U.S. Aegis Ashore missile defense facility, located in a former airbase on 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)