In 2004 the Royal Air Force lost 7, 900 jobs, some training planes, an air base and a squadron of Tornados.
In response, Pakistan has closed its border with Afghanistan to critical coalition supply convoys and ordered the U.S. to vacate an air base used for drone attacks.
There have been some questions about whether Saudi Arabia will allow the U.S. to use an air base as a command center for any military attack on Afghanistan.
When the extra Russian MiGs arrived in Armenia earlier this year, an influential presidential adviser in Azerbaijan, Vafa Guluzade, grandly invited the Americans to set up an air base outside Baku.
Last month, the Russians, driven by concerns about Islamic extremists and the growing influence of the U.S. in the region, moved into an air base about 15 miles from the U.S. base.
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Anyway, an Air Force base in Ohio and an Army base in Kentucky have decided that they're too much of a security risk, and is requiring all cans of Coke to be inspected before being brought into secure areas, just in case one of them happens to have a GPS chip in it.
It is an Iraqi air base, but there was very little protection here.
In response, Mr Zelaya led a group of supporters to an air force base where they carted off the ballots.
Speaking at an air force base in Alaska this week, Mr Bush reiterated his view that America has no choice but to confront them.
The government of Kyrgyzstan asked parliament to approve the closure of an important American air base, Manas, near the capital, Bishkek.
Clinton landed at Chaklala Air Base in an unmarked executive jet, safely behind an identical decoy aircraft.
It had been attempting to make an emergency landing at a military air base near the airport.
The launch comes on the heels of the successful flight of OTV-2, which made an autonomous landing at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
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It saw the Landsat-8 mission hurtle skywards on an Atlas rocket from the US Air Force base at Vandenberg shortly after 10:00 local time (18:00 GMT).
Battlefield acupuncture was invented out of whole cloth by military doctor Richard Niemtzow, who runs an acupuncture clinic out of Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.
Arafat's widow, Suha, and his 9-year-old daughter, Zahwa, were among the crowd of dignitaries looking on as the coffin was placed on an Egyptian military cargo plane at the air base.
An example brought up numerous times was that of Gregory Robbins, an airman stationed at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, who beat his 18-year-old wife in 1996, killing the child she was carrying.
In 2010, the Air Force tested employees at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam with an irresistible offer: the chance to work on a nearby shoot for a "Transformers 3" movie.
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The Landsat satellite was boosted into orbit by an Atlas V rocket shortly before 11:30 a.m. local time, more than an hour after lifting off from Vandenberg Air Force Base under mostly clear skies.
In October 2011, four people were killed when an Antonov crashed on landing at al-Anad air base in southern Yemen.
He flies an A-10 Warthog out of a forward air base in south central Iraq and has just come back from a mission over Baghdad.
Duties: For the first time, B-2 bombers will fly missions from an overseas base instead of the long, round-trip flights it has previously made from Whiteman Air Force Base.
The B-52 took to the skies Tuesday, but no other information about the test flight was available, John Haire, a spokesman for Edwards Air Force Base in California, said in an email.
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Lindsay Fleming, who lives two doors down from the Hakkens, recalled last speaking to the Hakkens about a year ago outside their homes during an annual air show put on by nearby MacDill Air Force Base.
The procession traveled to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, where she was carried aboard an airplane for the flight to Houston.
As recently as Friday morning, Afghan workers at the Defense Ministry were arranging transport for dignitaries and journalists to attend Saturday's ceremony at the detention center adjoining the Bagram Air Field, a U.S. base about an hour outside of the capital.
In Tampa, Mrs Kelley has served as an unpaid "social liaison", helping to organise gatherings at MacDill Air Force Base, which is the home of US Central Command.
The statistics emerged against a backdrop of scandals, including an ongoing investigation into more than 30 Air Force instructors for assaults on trainees at a Texas base.
On Wednesday, the governing African National Congress (ANC) party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) demanded an investigation into how the guests of the family flew from India to the Waterkloof Air Force Base near Pretoria.
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