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"Historic Tinian airfield slated for debut flight operations as Pentagon expands Pacific network",
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"textContent": "The U.S. Air Force’s largest historical airfield in the Pacific is scheduled to restart operations later this month after four years of construction and vegetation clearing on the remote island of Tinian in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), according to new documents published by the Department of Defense last week. The construction, part of a multi-million-dollar contract, is returning Tinian’s historic North Field to service after it was abandoned almost […]\n\nThe post Historic Tinian airfield slated for debut flight operations as Pentagon expands Pacific network appeared first on The Air Current.",
"title": "Historic Tinian airfield slated for debut flight operations as Pentagon expands Pacific network"
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