Sentences with phrase «air base»

It is a metric he pulled out of thin air based on nothing but assumptions.

Military bases for military aviation are called military air bases.

It also has a strong air base with 1000 aircraft.

If you survive a dog fight, but have some substantial damage, you can land your plane on a friendly air base or landing strip and get repairs before taking off again.

Trump did warn Russia before the US struck a Syrian air base in April of last year.

President Donald Trump recently launched a salvo of 59 Tomahawk guided - missiles from two Navy destroyers at a Syrian air base in response to Syrian President Bashar Assad's use of chemical weapons on his own people.

Following these mishaps, Kuznetsov's air wing was forced to operate from air bases in Syria until the issues were resolved.

Whether Americans intended it or not, we are now seen around the world as approving the torture of captives at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, at Bagram Air Base in Kabul, at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and at a global network of secret CIA prisons, as well as having endorsed Bush's claim that, as commander - in - chief in «wartime,» he is beyond all constraints of the Constitution or international law.

Mar. - 22, 2017 LandSat image of study area with Thule Air Base near bottom right, Saunders Island in the center.

To those of you out there who want to correspond with a 23 - year - old, single senior airman from Medford, N.J., now stationed at Osan Air Base in Korea, write Operation Dear Abby, in care of Wayne J. Barnaby, PSC Box 421, APO San Francisco 96366 - 0006.

The bus arrived at Ramstein Air Base on the evening of December 16 and drove on to the lantern - jaw ramp of a C - 141 Starlifter, the army's behemoth troop and cargo transport plane.

But others in Spain say there are substantial hidden public costs, including the 10,000 police officers on duty for security, the use of the Cuatro Vientos military air base for Mass, and a discount for visiting Catholic youth on the city's metro, at the same time as regular metro fares have risen sharply.

He opposes the use of Reaper drones, operated from Hancock Air Base, to fly missions over Afghanistan and Pakistan.

They battle the unseen enemy in hopes of making a U.S. air base on the occupied island.

You called your visit a kind of homecoming, because you'd lived on Kadena Air Base as a kid.

Hecker said the success of the campaign against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria meant the A-10s could be deployed to Afghanistan instead of Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, where they would otherwise have been based.

«The American strike on Shayrat air base in Syria is an appropriate response to [Assad's] mass homicide,» said Fred Hof, the director of the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East and former US special adviser on Syria.

The Al - Udeid Air Base acts as the headquarters for US Central Command in its efforts for «Operation Inherent Resolve» in Iraq and Syria.

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This is the reason why there are foreign military bases in Germany (e.g. Ramstein Air Base of the US Air Force), but there are none in Austria, as the Allies left in 1955.

The former air base was home to the largest runway in New England and was still serving for military training and attracted some commercial aviation.

So my question is, why not ditch all that land and air based missiles and rely on submarines.

Developed chemical zone system for Kadena Air Base by establishing checklists, procedures and equipment usage

Filmed during the two summer 2017 deployments, the video in this post shows the U.S. Air Force F - 16s of the 14th Fighter Squadron from Misawa Air Base, Japan, at work from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, and Eielson AFB, where the unit deployed in the last months to take part in Cope North and Red Flag Alaska exercises.

I was a fresh faced Air Force member on my way from Moody Air Force Base in Valdosta, Georgia going to Kunsan Air Base in Gunsan, South Korea.

TOKYO (The Japan News / ANN)- CV - 22 Osprey transport aircraft operated by the U.S. Air Force arrived at Yokota Air Base on Thursday, with an eye to increasing the deterrent power of the Japan-U.S. alliance against North Korea.

The Lieutenant Governor points to her work with the Niagara Falls air base and with small businesses and farmers.

Today it is an almost completely paved naval air base built atop earthen material dredged from the San Francisco Bay in the 1930s.

A soldier treated at Balad Air Base stands a 96 percent chance of surviving; several hundred come through every month.

The ten person group, including six Belgians, and one each from France, Switzerland, Netherlands and Canada, arrived from Cape Town to Russia's Novo Air Base on board an Ilyushin Il - 76 aircraft.

He was found in Italy in 1999, when Po's husband was stationed in northern Italy at the U.S. Air Force at Aviano Air base, and is still partial to many aspects of Italian life: He begs for espresso, drinks the foam from cappuccino and enjoys being talked to in Italian.

Evangeline began creating the work as a collaboration with her son, then a lieutenant colonel stationed at a US Air Base in Balad, Iraq.

In 1942, the U.S. Army built the Hobbs Army Air Base that was used in World War II, which now serves as a park that is used for soaring competitions.

While Dallas Animal Services is overseeing the care of Bentley — now sequestered at a decommissioned Naval air base nearby — the Dallas Fire Department's Hazmat Response Team is doing the hands - on (and gloves on, and hazmat suits on) work, feeding and cleaning up after the dog.

2001 — 2004: Shop Foreman, Brown & Root Services, (Airfield) Tuzla Air Base, Bosnia - Herzegovina Ensured adequate manpower, tools, equipment, spare parts, and workspace was available, and oversaw daily operations for fleet of 76 military vehicles valued at more than $ 8M.

«If you sit at the back of a Hercules at Kandahar air base as I have done, you will realise that our soldiers don't ask for much,» he said.

TOKYO (Reuters)- A window fell from a U.S. helicopter onto a school sports field near a U.S. Marines air base on Okinawa on Wednesday, the Marines said, the latest in a series of accidents that have fanned safety concerns on Japan's southern island.

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Best pals from a hardscrabble Tennessee childhood, they're now hot young Air Corps studs, P - 40 Warhawk jocks out of a Long Island air base where they regularly play mock - chicken at 350 miles an hour 35 feet above the ground, to the delight and admiration of the rest of the squadron.

Beyond that, even if you lost the entire land and air based arsenals, you still have submarines.

Dadey and others praise Trump for nominating Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, striking a Syrian air base after its government used chemical weapons and starting work on his campaign promises.

Stationed at Tan Son Nhut Air Base during the Vietnam War, Nemo was a German Shepherd who served with the US Air Force.

First we set up a shelter in the center of what will hopefully soon become an array of ocean sensors and acoustic modems to move data wirelessly through the water from point A in the north - west via point B to point C. Point C will become the pier at Thule Air Base while the tent is at B that I call Camp - B:

In the film, Bond and Karla are escaping a Russian air base in Afghanistan, so they went with the lesser of two evils (lesser in 1987).

The Thule Air Base track is part of the NASA Operation IceBridge mission inventory.

Russia also announced Wednesday that it would deploy state - of - the - art S - 400 missile systems to the Russian Hemeimeem air base in Latakia — 30 miles south of the Turkish border, AP reported.

In the southern city of Kandahar, where NATO - led forces operate out of a big air base, 11 children were killed and 16 wounded when a suicide bomber drove his explosive - laden van into a foreign - force convoy, police said.

Amid the growing tension with China, Taiwan's defense ministry said on Tuesday it will simulate repelling an invading force, emergency repairs of a major air base and using civilian - operated drones as part of military exercises starting next week.