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Andrews Air Force Base

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Andrews Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 4,279 acres (1,732 hectares), central Md., est. 1943. It is the chief military airport of Washington, D.C., as well as the headquarters for the air force's high-priority airlift command.


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Trout 99 was the second aircraft in a program that dates back to the late 1950s at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland that has come to be known as ``Speckled Trout.
So successful were the media in making Rice's most recent trip exclusively about the twin issues of torture and "secret CIA prisons" that the secretary, having promised to address the whole matter prior to her departure early Monday morning, was forced to use the faux wood paneling in the Andrews Air Force Base aviators' lounge as the drab backdrop for a full-bore speech on the issue.
Andrews Air Force Base is named for a great American.
 
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