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Byline: Juan O. Tamayo
SOMEWHERE NEAR IRAQ _ This U.S. military air base near Iraq is so crowded that its air traffic controllers had to improvise a bizarrely zigzagging taxiway to keep the runways clear for warplanes landing and taking off.
So crowded that parking aprons are almost completely blanketed with scores of Air Force F-16s and A-10s, Marine Corps F/A 18s and Marine and British Harrier "jump jets," parked wingtip to wingtip.
"It's a traffic nightmare out there," the chief U.S. air traffic controller, Master Sgt. Keith Ercanbrack, warned 70 newly arrived Marine pilots. "Our biggest danger may be coming back to the field."
As the U.S. military buildup nears its ...
Source: HighBeam Research, U.S. military base near Baghdad short on space.(Knight Ridder...