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Canadian Forces Base Clinton, CFB Clinton for short, was a Canadian Forces Base located near Clinton, Ontario.It initially opened in July 1941 as RAF Station Clinton under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan as a training unit for radar operators during a period when radar was a top secret device.
Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base, located 17 miles (27 km) southwest of Clinton, was established in October 1943 during World War II as Naval Air Station Clinton and served as a Strategic Air Command (SAC) heavy bomber and aerial refueling aircraft base during the Cold War, from September 1954 through December 1969.
Note: The former Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base, now Clinton-Sherman Industrial Airpark, was originally Naval Air Station Clinton as acquired by the U. S. Navy in 1942. NAS Clinton was closed at the end of World War II and turned over to the City of Clinton.
On Sept. 8, 2005, the Department of Defense's Base Closure and Realignment Commission (BRAC) gave President George W. Bush a list of 20 major military installations that it had determined were no ...
The initial air base was established by the Royal Air Force (RAF) with the purchase of Norman Tyndall’s 100-acre farm located at Lot 46 Concession 1 in Tuckersmith Township (now part of Huron East, Ontario since 2001), in the spring of 1941 under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.
Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) [1] [2] was a process [3] by a United States federal government commission [4] to increase the efficiency of the United States Department of Defense by coordinating the realignment and closure of military installations following the end of the Cold War. Over 350 installations have been closed in five BRAC ...
It could be seen a major accomplishment in garnering veteran support to take the county harboring the world's largest military base, but the Democratic nominee only beat Trump 56.7 percent to 40.7 ...
Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission 1993 Report to the President Archived 2015-10-07 at the Wayback Machine "Military Bases: Analysis of DOD's Recommendations and Selection Process for Closures and Realignments" (PDF). U.S. GAO:Office of Public Affairs. U.S. Government Accountability Office. April 15, 1993. OCLC 28011981