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There was also an American air force detachment here during the war.

The Air Force detachment was rapidly finishing their job of clearing the airfield.

Here at Alcantara, a Brazilian Air Force detachment largely spends its time pruning and painting.

Someone not part of the battered Red Air Force detachment was trudging across the airstrip, very likely without realizing it was one.

Once the RoAF finish its three-month stint, a Portuguese Air Force detachment will take over the mission.

Gen. Gromori Vasconcelos de Andrade, commander of the Brazilian Air Force detachment here, declined a request for an interview about the future of the base.

United States citizens have lived in Alice Springs continuously since the establishment of the United States Air Force Detachment 421, in 1954.

By that time, the BEF consisted of 10 infantry divisions in three corps, a tank brigade and a Royal Air Force detachment of around 500 aircraft.

In January 1992, he went to Saudi Arabia for two months as Public Relations Officer for the Royal Air Force detachment in Dhahran.

Other than the small Navy and Air Force detachments that assist the police, the Bolivian armed forces are not involved in combating drugs and are divided over whether they should get involved.

KEFLAVIK, ICELAND The major commanding the Air Force detachment was enjoying himself despite having been up for over thirty hours.

Material from A Short History of Abandoned and Downsized Canadian Military Bases - Introduction Royal Canadian Air Force Detachment Alliston 4 April 2011.

The commander of a French Air Force detachment assigned to the base said the concern was significant enough that the issue of surveillance was the main focus when representatives from the various countries last met to discuss security issues on June 3.

In October 1941, far to the north, an Air Force detachment of four to six B-17 Flying Fortresses had begun anti submarine patrols over the northwest Atlantic Ocean from RCAF Station Gander, Newfoundland.

With rising international tension and the Royal Air Force detachment's close proximity to the Iraqi border, 34 Squadron took the lead role in securing the base from potential terrorist and conventional ground attack, whilst working closely with American and Kuwaiti security forces.

The army's group was supported by an Argentine Air Force detachment, the Grupo 1 de Artillería Antiaérea (1st Group of Antiaircraft Artillery) which had been transferred from Tandil to Mar del Plata in October 1981.

In response, in 1958, the Netherlands deployed military reinforcements to New Guinea, including an Air Force detachment for the air defense of the island Biak as there was evidence that Indonesia was infiltrating the island in advance of a military operation.

However, this untoward experience did not dampen Mussolini's enthusiasm to be a partner of this new, powerful Germany, and the next day, after reviewing a military parade of Army, Navy and Air Force detachments, he returned to Rome convinced that his future lay at the side of Hitler.

Col. Tom Bliss, the commander of an American Air Force detachment of Awacs planes deployed in Saudi Arabia, said that as the forces here "lean to the offensive," Americans often fly on Saudi-commanded Awacs and Saudis fly on American-piloted planes, sharing battlefield duties.

The Indian Peace Keeping Force (1987-90) in Sri Lanka used Mi-24s when an Indian Air Force detachment was deployed there in support of the Indian and Sri Lankan armed forces in their fight against various Tamil militant groups such as the LTTE.