U.S. Senate appropriators have been working to keep Midway Atoll open

Edited by James E. Swickard February 01, 2004
U.S. Senate appropriators have been working to keep Midway Atoll open for emergency operations. Midway's Henderson Field is used as a diversion base in ETOPS in the Pacific. The Fish and Wildlife Service runs it as a bird preserve but no longer wants to operate the airfield. The fiscal 2003 budget...

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