Commodore Jock Alexander OBE told the BBC that the military air station was "pretty secure".
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The island is also popular with Americans from the nearby Iwakuni Marine Corps Air Station.
David still serves in the reserves as a lieutenant commander based at Royal Navy Air Station Yeovilton.
The three largest bases are Kadena Air Base, White Beach Naval Facility, and Futenma Marine Air Station.
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Video from CNN affiliate KIII-TV showed flashing lights and emergency vehicles outside the air station overnight.
In 1913, No.2 Squadron Royal Flying Corps established the air station at Montrose to protect the Royal Navy.
Dorner underwent flight training in 2009 at Naval Air Station Fallon in Nevada before serving in San Diego.
The jet was from a training squadron at Naval Air Station Oceana, the Navy and Federal Aviation Administration said.
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And for the wonderful kids from Naval Air Station Sigonella who led the Pledge of Allegiance -- (applause) -- yes!
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The Albrook air station is soon to close, and by the end of this year barely 4, 000 American servicemen will remain.
The Coast Guard helicopters from Air Station Houston could make their last flights Friday afternoon as rain starts to move in, Aiello said.
All of those rescued arrived at the Coast Guard air station in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, and were in good health, Parker said.
That was used by the governor of Okinawa to prise considerable concessions from America, including the return of the big Futenma air station.
The plane, which wasn't carrying live ordnance, crashed 2.2 miles from the runway of Naval Air Station Oceana, a senior Defense Department official told CNN.
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In May, the same aircraft had to make two unscheduled air returns following reports of engine failure, according to a Dana Air station manager in Lagos.
On the night of Tuesday, April 26th, the SEAL team boarded a Boeing C-17 Globemaster at Naval Air Station Oceana, a few miles from Dam Neck.
Back at Basra air station, where most of the UK's 4, 000 troops are based, preparations for the British military's sixth Christmas in Iraq are well under way.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg was at the Royal Naval Air Station to formally welcome the flame with 500 members of the public, armed forces and dignitaries.
Of the five drones based at southern Maryland's Naval Air Station Patuxent River, four are in routine training and one is deployed with the U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet, the officials said.
The aircraft experienced a "catastrophic mechanical malfunction" during takeoff from Naval Air Station Oceana on Friday, raining jet fuel over Virginia Beach before plunging to the ground, according to residents and Navy officials.
The RQ-4A Global Hawk drone crashed during a routine training flight from Naval Air Station Patuxent River, according to Jamie Cosgrove, a spokeswoman for the Unmanned Aviation and Strike Weapons Program at the base.
Three HH-65C helicopters from Coast Guard Air Station Houston rescued more than 20 people and were continuing to fly round-the-clock rescue missions until weather grounds them, said Petty Officer Renee Aiello, a station spokeswoman.
Arriving for about 18 months of flight training at the Pensacola Naval Air Station on January 26, 1949, Neil became qualified as a Naval Aviator for carrier landings two weeks after his 20th birthday.
Tom Frosch, the Blue Angels lead pilot and team commander, announced the news late Tuesday at the team's Pensacola Naval Air Station headquarters while standing in front of the one of the iconic blue-and-gold jets.
However, several of those, including one originally scheduled for this coming weekend at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi in Texas, had been canceled with the expectation that the budget cuts would force the Navy's hand.
He visited a clinic at the Pensacola Naval Air Station in August 2011 for abdominal pain and vomiting and was transferred four days later to a civilian hospital where he died, a Defense Department spokeswoman said last week.
Military authorities took him into custody September 10 at the naval air station in Jacksonville, Florida, while he was in possession of classified documents "that a chaplain shouldn't have, " said an official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
In the 2004 election, the three counties closest to Eglin Air Force base all gave George W. Bush over 70 percent of their votes, as did Clay County near Naval Air Station Jacksonville (which had over 20, 000 military and civilian workers on-site).
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The crew of the Coast Guard MH-60J helicopter CG 6007, U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak, nominated by the United States of America, for rescuing, at night, in blowing snow and sub-zero temperatures, all five crew members from a stranded fishing vessel, in Alaska, in February 2011.
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