The Baltic wind blows hard and the blackened sky threatens a storm. The military march Warszawskie dzieci (Children of Warsaw) blares out, evoking the Polish capital’s uprising against the German army in 1944. The music envelops the 43rd Naval Air Force Base in Gdynia — approximately 40 miles from the Russian border in Kaliningrad and 15 miles from the Westerplatte Peninsula, where World War II began — with an epic atmosphere. “It’s to motivate them. At first, they’re a little scared,” explains Lieutenant Colonel Maciej Hulisz, pointing to groups of people scattered across a vast meadow. They are 200 civilians, between 15 and 53 years of age, who have decided to spend the last Saturday in May training with the Polish army.
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