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Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Apr. 2025
The Arctic island is also home to a U.S. air base and straddles strategic air and sea routes in the North Atlantic.
—Danica Kirka, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2025
Duterte at the Villamor air base in Pasay, outside Manila, after arriving from Hong Kong on Tuesday.
—Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 11 Mar. 2025
Bulldozers that were cleaning up contamination at a former American air base in southern Vietnam — which both countries might eventually want to use — have gone silent.
—Damien Cave, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
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Kadena is located on the Japanese island of Okinawa and is the closest American air base to Taiwan, a U.S. security partner.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Apr. 2025
The Arctic island is also home to a U.S. air base and straddles strategic air and sea routes in the North Atlantic.
—Danica Kirka, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2025
Duterte at the Villamor air base in Pasay, outside Manila, after arriving from Hong Kong on Tuesday.
—Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 11 Mar. 2025
Bulldozers that were cleaning up contamination at a former American air base in southern Vietnam — which both countries might eventually want to use — have gone silent.
—Damien Cave, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
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“Air base.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/air%20base. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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