Ross said welcome banners line the main gate outside Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.

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He says currently the only landing pad they have is on the U.N. base, and it's already overly congested.

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In a concrete bunker on a mothballed Air Force base in Plattsburgh, N.

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Bosnian government troops, meanwhile, raided a U.N. peacekeepers base near Velika Kladusa, taking supplies and equipment from the camp's Bangladeshi troops.

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They were taken to a Coast Guard base at Elizabeth City, N.

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For instance, the U.N. sign came down outside the Tuzla base where the U.S. army will now take residence.

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When U.N. forces took over the Tuzla air base in 1994, it was to be a gateway for a stream of humanitarian aid to the area in northeastern Bosnia.

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Never mind that the U.S. defense industrial base is a fraction of what it was in Eisenhower's day n terms of the number of domestic suppliers involved, the size of the associated workforce and output of materiel.

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Liang is scheduled to visit the U.S. Southern Command in Florida, and tour Camp Lejeune and Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina as well as the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.

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