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Around 3:20 p.m., several aviation munitions detonated on the territory of the airfield' Saki' near the settlement of Novofedorivka. – The Russian defense ministry	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I’m not saying we’ve got to be in Afghanistan forever, but I am saying: Did any of you throw your rank on the table and say, ‘Hey, it’s a bad idea to evacuate Bagram Airfield, a strategic airbase, before we evacuate everyone?’ did anyone do that? And when you didn’t think to do that, did anyone raise their hand and say, ‘We completely messed this up?'. – Stuart Scheller	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
So, I think it would have been difficult under any circumstances, and I think our soldiers performed extraordinarily well actually in 48 hours, getting control of an airfield in another country, eight and a half time zones away. – Mark Milley	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We were responsible for securing the airfield. We had a lot of interpreters that worked for us, once the collapse happened, interpreters started to reach out to us asking for help, saying they were stuck. – Kevin Ryan	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It was definitely different. I've never been on an airfield where I didn’t really have permission to take off. – Kirby Wedan	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I'm not saying we need to be in Afghanistan forever, but I am saying, did any of you throw your rank on the table and say, ‘Hey, it’s a bad idea to evacuate Bagram Airfield, a strategic airbase, before we evacuate everyone’? did anyone do that? And when you didn’t think to do that, did anyone raise their hand and say, ‘We completely messed this up’? – Stuart Scheller	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I'm not going to talk about specific capabilities ISIS may have lost in this strike. They lost a planner, and they lost a facilitator. And they have one wounded. The fact two of these individuals are no longer walking on the face of the Earth, that's a good thing, it is a good thing for the people of Afghanistan, it's a good thing for our troops and our forces at that airfield. – The US	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We will coordinate very carefully to make sure that it's safe for American citizens to come to the airfield, if it's not, we'll tell them to hold, and then we'll work other ways to try to get them to the airfield. – Frank McKenzie	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Maintenance has long been an Achilles heel for the Iraqi security services, and they have been almost entirely dependent on the United States to keep their planes flying, the F-16s have been based at the Balad airfield, which has been regularly targeted with rockets and mortars by pro-Iranian militias. My view is that the F-16 program could be in serious trouble if the Iraqi government is unable or unwilling to fulfill its most basic international obligation to protect U.S. diplomats, troops, and contractors that theyve invited into their country. – John Hannah	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We get in the van and we just race across the airfield. We had to cross over the runway, and we didn't really care, we had heard somebody say that they saw cop lights. – Joey Triplicata	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Wednesday Defense Secretary Mark Esper has given approval for the military to airlift USAID personnel and supplies to the Bahamas, in addition to assessment teams. I have approved DoD support to NORTHCOM to airlift USAID personnel and supplies and we also will be sending along with that aircraft a DoD airfield assessment team, an airfield clearing team and an air traffic control team to open the Bahamas up as soon as possible for relief flights, aid flights, so again thats all in addition to what were prepared to provide for the people of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and others. – Mark Esper	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Once drones are sighted over an airfield the authorities have no option but to suspend all flights. If they didn't and it led to a disaster then they would be slated, we've seen nothing on this scale before although Manchester Airport did suspend all flights for a short time back in 2017 after a drone was seen. – Jon Parker	Found on CNN 5 years ago
They're credential employees. They're there to work on the airplanes. ... This is aviation in America. The doors of the airplanes are not keyed like a car. There is not an ignition key like a car. The setup in aviation in America is we secure the airfield. – Brad Tilden	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Every airport has problems with bird strikes and wildlife on the airfield. It’s a big safety hazard, so a dog can be a real predator, it will keep birds, deer, coyotes, rabbits away from the airfield. – Nick Keller	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
They are looking for greater distance and accuracy, they can still miss by hundreds of metres, but that doesn't rule out firing against a city or a very large airfield. – Douglas Barrie	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
They are looking for greater distance and accuracy, they can still miss by hundreds of meters, but that doesn't rule out firing against a city or a very large airfield. – Douglas Barrie	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
It is only a matter of months till we win, thanks to the Russian support with their airstrikes flown from the Syrian airfield, which will defeat the rebels once and for all. – Abu Mohammed	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It is only a matter of months till we win, thanks to the Russian support with their air strikes flown from the Syrian airfield, which will defeat the rebels once and for all. – Abu Mohammed	Found on CNN 8 years ago
To begin flight operations at this new airfield in a disputed area raises tensions and threatens regional stability. – State Department spokesman John Kirby	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
They are the last resort to the airfield in many cases, and to have them unarmed is just, I think, it's ludicrous. – Matt Brandon	Found on CNN 8 years ago
If you're not using an airfield, and you take off early in the morning, by the time they figure out what's going on you've landed and you're gone. – George Steinmetz	Found on CNN 8 years ago

Around 3:20 p.m., several aviation munitions detonated on the territory of the airfield' Saki' near the settlement of Novofedorivka.

– The Russian defense ministry

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m not saying we’ve got to be in Afghanistan forever, but I am saying: Did any of you throw your rank on the table and say, ‘Hey, it’s a bad idea to evacuate Bagram Airfield, a strategic airbase, before we evacuate everyone?’ did anyone do that? And when you didn’t think to do that, did anyone raise their hand and say, ‘We completely messed this up?'.

– Stuart Scheller

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

So, I think it would have been difficult under any circumstances, and I think our soldiers performed extraordinarily well actually in 48 hours, getting control of an airfield in another country, eight and a half time zones away.

– Mark Milley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We were responsible for securing the airfield. We had a lot of interpreters that worked for us, once the collapse happened, interpreters started to reach out to us asking for help, saying they were stuck.

– Kevin Ryan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was definitely different. I've never been on an airfield where I didn’t really have permission to take off.

– Kirby Wedan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I'm not saying we need to be in Afghanistan forever, but I am saying, did any of you throw your rank on the table and say, ‘Hey, it’s a bad idea to evacuate Bagram Airfield, a strategic airbase, before we evacuate everyone’? did anyone do that? And when you didn’t think to do that, did anyone raise their hand and say, ‘We completely messed this up’?

– Stuart Scheller

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I'm not going to talk about specific capabilities ISIS may have lost in this strike. They lost a planner, and they lost a facilitator. And they have one wounded. The fact two of these individuals are no longer walking on the face of the Earth, that's a good thing, it is a good thing for the people of Afghanistan, it's a good thing for our troops and our forces at that airfield.

– The US

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We will coordinate very carefully to make sure that it's safe for American citizens to come to the airfield, if it's not, we'll tell them to hold, and then we'll work other ways to try to get them to the airfield.

– Frank McKenzie

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Maintenance has long been an Achilles heel for the Iraqi security services, and they have been almost entirely dependent on the United States to keep their planes flying, the F-16s have been based at the Balad airfield, which has been regularly targeted with rockets and mortars by pro-Iranian militias. My view is that the F-16 program could be in serious trouble if the Iraqi government is unable or unwilling to fulfill its most basic international obligation to protect U.S. diplomats, troops, and contractors that theyve invited into their country.

– John Hannah

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We get in the van and we just race across the airfield. We had to cross over the runway, and we didn't really care, we had heard somebody say that they saw cop lights.

– Joey Triplicata

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Wednesday Defense Secretary Mark Esper has given approval for the military to airlift USAID personnel and supplies to the Bahamas, in addition to assessment teams. I have approved DoD support to NORTHCOM to airlift USAID personnel and supplies and we also will be sending along with that aircraft a DoD airfield assessment team, an airfield clearing team and an air traffic control team to open the Bahamas up as soon as possible for relief flights, aid flights, so again thats all in addition to what were prepared to provide for the people of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and others.

– Mark Esper

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Once drones are sighted over an airfield the authorities have no option but to suspend all flights. If they didn't and it led to a disaster then they would be slated, we've seen nothing on this scale before although Manchester Airport did suspend all flights for a short time back in 2017 after a drone was seen.

– Jon Parker

Found on CNN
5 years ago

They're credential employees. They're there to work on the airplanes. ... This is aviation in America. The doors of the airplanes are not keyed like a car. There is not an ignition key like a car. The setup in aviation in America is we secure the airfield.

– Brad Tilden

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Every airport has problems with bird strikes and wildlife on the airfield. It’s a big safety hazard, so a dog can be a real predator, it will keep birds, deer, coyotes, rabbits away from the airfield.

– Nick Keller

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

They are looking for greater distance and accuracy, they can still miss by hundreds of metres, but that doesn't rule out firing against a city or a very large airfield.

– Douglas Barrie

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

They are looking for greater distance and accuracy, they can still miss by hundreds of meters, but that doesn't rule out firing against a city or a very large airfield.

– Douglas Barrie

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It is only a matter of months till we win, thanks to the Russian support with their airstrikes flown from the Syrian airfield, which will defeat the rebels once and for all.

– Abu Mohammed

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It is only a matter of months till we win, thanks to the Russian support with their air strikes flown from the Syrian airfield, which will defeat the rebels once and for all.

– Abu Mohammed

Found on CNN
8 years ago

To begin flight operations at this new airfield in a disputed area raises tensions and threatens regional stability.

– State Department spokesman John Kirby

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

They are the last resort to the airfield in many cases, and to have them unarmed is just, I think, it's ludicrous.

– Matt Brandon

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If you're not using an airfield, and you take off early in the morning, by the time they figure out what's going on you've landed and you're gone.

– George Steinmetz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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