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  • Pakistani forces battled a group of militants for some 15 hours before ending an air-base siege, in another embarrassment for the military.

    What's News: World-Wide 2011

  • A vast white altar has been constructed at an air-base in the southwestern suburb of Cuatro Vientos where the pope will culminate his visit on Sunday with a celebration of mass beneath a giant parasol tree made of interwoven golden rods.

    World Youth Day Underway in Spain 2011

  • A vast white altar has been constructed at an air-base in the southwestern suburb of Cuatro Vientos where the pope will culminate his visit on Sunday with a celebration of mass beneath a giant parasol tree made of interwoven golden rods.

    World Youth Day Underway in Spain 2011

  • A vast white altar has been constructed at an air-base in the southwestern suburb of Cuatro Vientos where the pope will culminate his visit on Sunday with a celebration of mass beneath a giant parasol tree made of interwoven golden rods.

    World Youth Day Underway in Spain 2011

  • My earliest memories are of weekend visits to air-base flight lines and sitting in the cockpits of C-124s and C-97s and C-47s and other cargo planes, where Dad allowed me to grab the control yokes and “steer” the parked monsters.

    Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

  • My earliest memories are of weekend visits to air-base flight lines and sitting in the cockpits of C-124s and C-97s and C-47s and other cargo planes, where Dad allowed me to grab the control yokes and “steer” the parked monsters.

    Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

  • My earliest memories are of weekend visits to air-base flight lines and sitting in the cockpits of C-124s and C-97s and C-47s and other cargo planes, where Dad allowed me to grab the control yokes and “steer” the parked monsters.

    Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

  • My earliest memories are of weekend visits to air-base flight lines and sitting in the cockpits of C-124s and C-97s and C-47s and other cargo planes, where Dad allowed me to grab the control yokes and “steer” the parked monsters.

    Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

  • The four leaders huddled with their top aides for a closed-door session at an air-base on Terceira Island on Sunday, March 16.

    Plan of Attack Bob Woodward 2004

  • The four leaders huddled with their top aides for a closed-door session at an air-base on Terceira Island on Sunday, March 16.

    Plan of Attack Bob Woodward 2004

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