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air base

NOUN
  1. a base for military aircraft

How To Use air base In A Sentence

  • When I was asked planeside in Saigon or planeside in Honolulu or planeside at Andrews Air Base as I arrived, what I'd found, I was speaking not only to the American people; I was speaking to the enemy -- to the Chinese, to the Soviets and to the Viet Cong. In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
  • That was what you saw as the helicopters landed at this Marine air base, which is about 65 miles south of the capital.
  • Whilst the traditional different places of employment obviously differ (from, the smell of the "briny" with a cooking range being pitched up and down with the ship by the waves; to the unwanted inclusion of sand, leaves and insects in the field; to the salubrious comfort of an air base), the core skills, role and esprit must be common throughout the three Services. Army Rumour Service
  • Then I went to work at the Alameda naval air base, as a machinist's helper.
  • You spent four years in Africa, in England, in France, grubbing around in the insides of airplane engines and then they shipped you to an air base on a godforsaken island.
  • After a passing threat in the 1960s that the British government might put an air base on Aldabra, and a public outcry against that bad idea much like the outcry that Darwin had joined earlier, the Royal Society of London assumed protectorship of the atoll. The Song of The Dodo
  • Earlier this year, police arrested a group accused of planning to attack the U.S. Embassy and another group in the southern city of Adana, which is home to the Incirlik Air Base used by the United States to transfer noncombat supplies to Iraq and Afghanistan. The Seattle Times
  • Air bases were attacked, ships were strafed and fuel dumps were blown up.
  • It can be practised by units as small as a company or platoon, or as part of a major programme to protect an industrial site or air base.
  • One hundred and twelve days before, the nine of us greenhorns, just out of training schools, took our first combat crew training flight together at Dyersburg Army Air Base, Tennessee.
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