Word: airfields
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Specific changes include the installation ofenvironmentally safe pipe lines, the replacementor elimination of many existing airfield pipelinesand the upgrading of the sub-pavement hydrantaircraft refueling system...
...airfield rescue and firefighting complexis also slated for construction. Several hanger,maintenance and service facilities will bemodernized or replaced entirely
...Down the deserted street proceeded a motorcade of minivans, all bearing noticeably few markings. Fifteen minutes earlier, the vice president had landed at the Bedford, Mass., airfield. These were his advance agents...
...Croatia suddenly balks at being a stop on the pipeline, there are chancier options. Heavy equipment can be flown into the U.N.-controlled Sarajevo airfield -- at least until the Serbs close it down. Ammunition and light weapons can be parachuted into the region by the same C-130 aircraft the U.S. has used for humanitarian missions. With arms, though, the planes would have to fly lower to the ground to ensure that the weapons reach their pinpointed targets -- and do not fall into Serbian hands...
From the start, the relationship between the foreign troops and Somalis has been ill defined, leaving ample room for misunderstanding. When a group of heavily armed Marines disgorged from an amphibious assault vehicle stenciled with the name BRAT PACK and tried to secure an airfield hangar, they baffled non-English-speaking Somalis with orders to "Get down on your knees!" and "Spread your arms!" At least one Somali found the treatment inexplicably rude, given that the men were unarmed. "If you are a human being, it's not good for you to be lying on the ground," he said...