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A semi-permanent USAAF presence was established in May 1947 as the facility was being reconstructed to facilitate Marshall Plan aid to Greece and Turkey. On 5 October 1948, the United States Air Force assigned the Military Air Transport Service 1632d Air Base Squadron to the airport with ten C-47 Skytrain cargo aircraft being based at the airport.
Araxos military airport – GPA, Greece, Patras Eleusis military base 38°03′50″N 23°33′21″E / 38.06389°N 23.55583°E / 38.06389; 23.55583 ( Eleusis Tanagra military airport 38°20′23″N 23°33′52″E / 38.33972°N 23.56444°E / 38.33972; 23.56444 ( Tanagra
Air Force General Staff Computer Center, at Papagou Military Base; Air Force Military Police, in Vyronas; 31st Search and Rescue Operations Squadron, at Elefsina Air Base (Special Forces) National Meteorological Service, in Ellinikon; Air Traffic Information Service, at the Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority in Glyfada; Air Force Insurance ...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece formally approved an offer to buy 20 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters from the United States as part of a major defense overhaul, government officials said Thursday.
Turkey was dropped from the F-35 program five years ago over its decision to buy Russian-made S-400 surface-to-air missile system, a move seen in the United States as a compromise to NATO security. In Athens, government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis described the current military modernization campaign as the most significant in “many decades.”
Crete Naval Base (Greek: Ναύσταθμος Κρήτης, Nafstathmos Kritis) is a major naval base of the Hellenic Navy and NATO at Souda Bay in Crete, Greece.. Formally known in NATO as Naval Support Activity, Souda Bay (NSA-Souda Bay), [1] and more commonly in Greece as the Souda Naval Base (Greek: Ναυτική Βάση Σούδας, Naftiki Vasi Soudas), it serves as the second largest ...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s armed forces declared three days of national mourning after five members of a military rescue team were killed in a road accident in flood-hit Libya.
One of the most prominent locations for foreign military training is Texas’ Sheppard Air Force Base, which hosts the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training Program (ENJJPT). First opened in 1981 ...