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Soldier practice at Arnold Air Force Base

Arnold Air Force Base

The Arnold AFB is prominently situated in close proximity to Tullahoma, in the city of Tennessee. The installation inherited its name in commemoration of General Henry Arnold, who is recognized as the architect for the facility. Flight training for this general was administered by the renowned Wright Brothers. The military installation serves to facilitate the [...]

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Practice at Kunsan Air Base

Kunsan Air Base

The Kunsan Air Base is located in the South Korean town of Gunsan. It is a United States Air Force installation located in South Korea as part of its efforts to support other nations in the area of military. This support is in the area of logistics and personnel. The name of the base comes [...]

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Soldiers inside K-16 Air Base

K-16 Air Base

K-16 Air Base is one of the United States Army installations in South Korea. Also sometimes called the Seoul Air Base, this facility is mainly used by the Airforce. K-16 Air Base occupies the premises of the Songman Airport and is operated by the Korean Air Force. The 52nd Aviation Regiment and the 1st Battalion of the [...]

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Transport plane at Riyadh Air Base

Riyadh Air Base

Riyadh is knows as the capital of the great Saudi Arabia and is at the great sandstone plateau of the Nejd in center of the Arab peninsula, about 1,800 m above sea level, coordination’s 24 ° 38′N 46 ° 43′E. The city’s Arabic name means “garden”. Former center of pilgrimage in the peninsula, the city [...]

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Plane at King Khalid air base

King Khalid Air Base

King Khalid was born 13 June – 1912 he was Crown Prince for 10 years from 1965 to 1975 and after that from 1975 and 1982 he was King of Saudi Arabia. The King Khalid Air Base and Airport is named after him. He was named crown king in 1965 because his older brother Mohammed bin [...]

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Soldier walking near Eskan Village Air Base

Eskan Village Air Base

Eskan Village is located in the desert of the capital city Riyadh at 24°34′N 46°51′E Eskan village is well known by the military base that its practically integrated in the village. Thousands of troops know it simply by Eskan, it is and it was their home from a far away home. Below you will find [...]

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King Fahd Military Medical Complex

King Fahd Military Medical Complex

King Fahd was born in 16 March 1921 in Riyadh, at the age of 11 he watches his father (Abdul-Aziz) as he signed the Treaty of Jeddah and as he founded the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It is actually a today recognized King, and will remain like this forever. In 1945 Fahd made his first [...]

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Soldiers at Al Udeid Air Base

Al Udeid Air Base

The military base Qatar Al-Udeid’s, where already are emphasized more than 5.000 soldiers and several planes of combat, and that possesses the longest runway of the region.  For days, Al Udeid, to approximately 30 kilometers to the suburbs of Doha, looks like a beehive in full activity, with planes that land and take off constant [...]

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Many planes at Lajes Field

Lajes Field

Lajes’s military American base is placed in the island Terceira of the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores, to approximately 1.500 kilometers of Lisbon and, therefore, equidistant of three countries that lead today the summit. The base works as an aircraft carrier in the Atlantic Ocean of the USA, which pays 55 million Euros per year [...]

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CH-47 takeoff from Transit Center at Manas

Transit Center at Manas

Today the AFB Kyrgyzstan Manas, also known as Gancy, it serves like a military spot of USA in the Flow with the Airport which is situated near Bishkek that is the Kirguizstan’s capital. These air bases in are firstly handled by the Air American Forces. East Kirgizstan the installation of air Base was a tax [...]

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Soldiers fully equipped at Yokota Air Base

Yokota Air Base

Japan Yokota’s air Base is a base of the Air Force of The United States, located in Fussa’s city in Tokyo, Japan. The base works as the headquarters of the army of The United States parked in Japan. It shelters to 14.000 workforce, and is used for air missions that include this Asian. The base [...]

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Main control tower at Thule Air Base

Thule Air Base

The Thule United States Air Base was opened on 1941 when Greenland gave the complete control of their security in the US making it the only military station of the United States in the northern part of the world.  From a simple weather station in 19151, it became an airbase whose prime mission is to [...]

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Military planes at Misawa Air Base

Misawa Air Base

Misawa Air Base is the home for 35th Fighter Wing which is situated in the northern side of Japan and is the only joint service unit in Western Pacific which is a home to the US Army, US Navy, US Air Force and Japan Defense Forces which can be seen once in a while. It [...]

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Plane launch at Kadena Air Base

Kadena Air Base

Kadena Air Base is the apex, peak or climax of all military air activities in Japan, with the sole purpose of managing the affairs and operations in the whole region. Kadena, the city of Okinawa and Chatan are in charge of the United States Air Force Base. It is the main point of airpower in [...]

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military planes at Aviano Air Base

Aviano Air Base

At the foot of the famous Alps in Italy there an Air base of American Air Force is located named Aviano. The well known 31st Fighter Wing is located in Aviano, and it is a major air component of the US European Command. To maintain and logistic support there are two operational fighter squadrons are [...]

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Plane at Joint Base Balad showing off

Joint Base Balad

The Iraq Balad base is somehow bleating in Iraq, to be more precise northern spot about 68 miles of the extensive North of Baghdad. Furthermore, the AFB base known as one of the largest air bases in Iraq. The aerodrome has two channels of approximately 11,000 & 11,300 feet as the length, respectively. Today, it [...]

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