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.
High on the closure list is the Futenma air station, which sits in the middle of an Okinawan city.
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 Americans allege he altered and deleted files at a US naval air station not long after the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001.
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.
For nearly two decades the closure of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma and the construction of a replacement facility in northern Okinawa have been in the works.
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.
And what do you think of the possibility that Futenma Air Station ultimately will be relocated to a place other than Henoko as agreed between Japan and the United States?
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.
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