User:Skyshot XIS/sandbox

jeffbot, here are a few 376th reference sites which may help. www.manas.ofcent.of.mil www.mapsoftheworld.com>kygystan>kyrgystaninformation www.nytimes.com/.../kyrgystan. sy-united-states-manas-air-base-will-be-shut book: The Strongman:  Vladimir Putin and the Struggle For Russia by Angus Roxburgh. 2012. I.B. Taurus & Co. Ltd., LOC 947.086 ROXBURGH, p.39:  Russia attempted to have the 376th evicted from Manas Airbase in 2009. They were also asked to leave their base in Uzbekistan in 2005, because the Russians under Putin wanted the U.S. forces out of Central Asia on the pretext that fighting the war on terror is temporary, not permanent. Putin had originally approved U.S. intervention in Afghanistan for only a temporary period of time. Of note 17 of the Chapter "Courting The West" the Russians had offered $2 billion in loans to the Kygystan government to evict the U.S. from the base which had, by then, been given a less-than-permanent-sounding name, 'Transit Center'. Of course, The NY Times reports the base is being closed. I have no idea at present whether it has been removed or if it has been decommissioned. The USAF loves to play chess with its units by decommissioning them, closing bases, renaming them, relocating them and switching them between commands. (If you need help on this part I will be willing to help. I was in the air Force and in a position to know a good bit about this unique and clever USAF behavior). Thanks for the good w3ork.