Naming of United States Airbases
Most United States Air Force bases are named after a person of military or governmental significance. Examples include Edwards Air Force Base, Selfridge Air National Guard Base and General Mitchell Air Reserve Base. "Air Force Station" is used in the name of those with very little or no flight activity (e.g. Onizuka Air Force Station). USAF bases located in other countries are usually named after the city or region where they're located (e.g. Spangdahlem Air Base).
The United States Army, like the Air Force, names most of its air bases after a military figure (e.g. Biggs Army Airfield).
The United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, and United States Coast Guard generally name their airbases after the area where they're located (e.g. Pensacola Naval Air Station, Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station and Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City).
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“The night is itself sleep
And what goes on in it, the naming of the wind,
Our notes to each other, always repeated, always the same.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“See, see where Christ’s blood streams in the firmament!
One drop would save my soul—half a drop! ah, my Christ!—
Ah, rend not my heart for naming of my Christ!—
Yet will I call on him!—O, spare me, Lucifer!—
Where is it now? ‘T is gone; and see where God
Stretcheth out his arm, and bends his ireful brows!—
Mountains and hills, come, come and fall on me,
And hide me from the heavy wrath of God!”
—Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)
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—Savinien Cyrano De Bergerac (1619–1655)