As part of their training, they sometimes land helicopters on the fairways of an abandoned Donald Ross golf course at the base and storm mansions, stables and other buildings that were owned and regularly used by the Rockefeller family as recently as the late 1990s.

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The international course has a firm base of Gouren wrestling each morning.

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The seven-line course zigzags down to a base camp, where Backcountry Adventures provides lunch and a chance to cool down in a nearby fresh-water swimming hole.

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So the town of Rantoul, a success story in central Illinois, followed the opposite course: it has replaced its air-force base with 71 different tenants.

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And there's no evidence either that Democrats in Congress have gotten their act together to bring about a change in course, much to the chagrin of their liberal base.

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To recapture its lost glory, he plans a clutch of new hotels, with perhaps a golf course on the site of a big Russian military base, which the Russians are quitting.

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And of course a growing tax base would make it much easier to cover the construction costs.

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Activision, of course, has an enormously loyal fan base to rely on, ensuring that the next Call of Duty series will sell a ton of copies at launch.

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