US Spent Fortune Improving Abandoned Base
by Aero-News Senior Correspondent Kevin R.C. "Hognose"
O'Brien
The US Base at Karshi-Khanabad is no more. The base where I
spent way too much time at a Special Forces FOB in 2002-03 is now
back in Uzbek hands after a ceremony on Monday, November 21, 2005,
in which the last US commander handed over a set of symbolic keys,
and the US flag was struck down and folded.