Sentences with phrase «airbase as»

The Island contained a large naval airbase as well as other airports.

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Hellenikon International Airport started as a military airbase in 1938 and was Athens» main hub for commercial air travel for 60 years.

You are jamming the two - bases as in joint bases, marine or Airbase etc and permanent base.

I was appalled by the account of Harold Wilson's government, as recently as the late 1960s, forcibly removing Chagos Islanders from their homes to make way for a US airbase on Diego Garcia, even though many lived on islands over 100 miles away.

On September 19th Mr Mohamed officially re-emerged when he was taken from Bagram airbase in Afghanistan to Guantanamo in Cuba, being held there without charge as an «enemy combatant» until the following autumn when he was charged with conspiracy, although these charges were later dropped and replaced with new military commission accusations at the end of 2008.

Image analysis, completed less than a month later, covered a total of 36,000 square kilometers and revealed roadblocks, an influx of military vehicles at airbases, naval blockades, and other pivotal events as the conflict escalated.

Two miles from the airbase he plunged, burning, into a sizeable tract of forest known locally as Abbot's Wood.

Some cats belonging to families on American airbases are de-clawed, making them difficult to re-home if the need arises as relatively few British owners are geared to keeping an indoor - only cat.

Established during World War II as a strategic airbase in the Caribbean, the United States has since used vast areas of the eastern part of Vieques as a bombing range and site for military training exercises.

My final assignment was as the Chief Fire Officer at the Al Kut airbase directing 2 stations, 47 personnel and 8 Structural and ARFF apparatus.