USAF announces departure from Manas air base - IHS Janes 360 Obama blames Russia... Saul Alinsky would be proud. The US Air Force (USAF) has formally announced that it is leaving its base in Kyrgyzstan and relocating some of its operations to Romania.The Kyrgyzstan government notified the United States in June that it would have to leave the base, known formally as the Transit Center at Manas International Airport (TCM), when the lease agreement ends in July 2014. The Kyrgyzstan government, under apparent Russian pressure, tried to evict the Americans in 2009, but the United States was able to renegotiate the lease agreement at a higher price (USD60 million per year, up from roughly USD17 million). The USAFs 376th Air Expeditionary Wing uses Manas to process nearly all of its troops entering and leaving Afghanistan. US forces attempted to renegotiate an extension of their lease in Jan 2013, but the Government no longer wants US forces on its soil, after the current lease expires. janes/article/28519/usaf-announces-departure-from-manas-air-base Read more at liveleak/view?i=9f3_1382863272#I6CC36b1yDi1qPJt.99
Posted on: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 23:13:14 +0000
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