It is also home to the US Fifth Fleet and a close ally of the United States.
Command: Keating is the commander of the U.S. Fifth Fleet and the U.S. Naval Forces Central Command.
Nathan Christensen, a public affairs officer for the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet, which is based in the region.
Bahrain plays a key strategic role in the Middle East and is home to the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet headquarters.
Bahrain, where the United States Navy's Fifth Fleet anchors, is a small, predominantly Shiite country governed by a Sunni royal family.
Bahrain, where the U.S. Navy anchors its Fifth Fleet, is a small, predominantly Shiite country governed by a Sunni royal family.
We also have Bahrain, which hosts the command of the Fifth Fleet.
The small island kingdom plays a key strategic role in the Middle East, and is home to the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet.
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Oil companies, in particular, ought to be be paying for the cost of the Fifth Fleet, which protects the Strait of Hormuz.
The warning is significant, since America's Fifth Fleet is based in Bahrain.
Bahrain's Western allies, in particular the Americans, whose Fifth Fleet is based on the state's coast, have little appetite for upbraiding the government.
The small island kingdom in the Persian Gulf plays a key strategic role in the Middle East and is home to the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet.
Bahrain, the headquarters of America's Fifth Fleet, has now joined Saudi Arabia in prohibiting the use of any bases on its territory for strikes against Iraq.
Of the five drones based at southern Maryland's Naval Air Station Patuxent River, four are in routine training and one is deployed with the U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet, the officials said.
He hopes that the report will provide a chance of reconciliation in this tiny but strategic Gulf state that is a Western ally and home to the American navy's Fifth Fleet.
Since both have been highly useful to the United States (Yemen helps to hold al-Qaeda at bay and Bahrain hosts the Fifth Fleet), this makes it much harder for Mr Obama to align his country's interests with its values.
There would be plenty of other losers too, from the nations that depend on a steady flow of Middle East oil to stabilize global energy prices to the shippers that count on the Fifth Fleet for protection to the local companies that help sustain U.S. forces in the region.
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