Word: airfield
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Bringing bags of mail, 200 cases of Coca-Cola and 5,000 Hershey bars, President Clinton paid a morale-boosting visit to nearly 1,000 American soldiers at the airfield in Tuzla, Bosnia. The President also met with Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian leaders...
...Tuzla airfield, ground crews will have little time to gripe. The former Yugoslav airstrip for fighter planes has only one runway, on which the outlines of filled-in holes created by Serb shelling can still be plainly seen. No matter: plans call for a U.S. cargo plane to land there every 20 minutes all day and eventually through the night. And only three planes can be on the ground at any time. Can this ambitious schedule...
...Outpost is here to protect airfield," he said, pointing in the direction of our departing Marine helo...
...What's the airfield here for?" I asked...
...Airfield here to resupply outpost...