As tremors in mid-June 1991 shook Mount Pinatubo ... as in the transition of Clark Field from a strategic military base to a civilian airport. The Philippine Air Force, reduced to a handful ...

Ash, smoke and mayhem descended onto Clark Air Base when nearby Mount Pinatubo erupted three decades ago in the Philippines. In the hours after the eruption on June 15, 1991, Susan Kreifels ...

On June 10, 1991, the impending eruption of long-dormant volcano Mount Pinatubo on Luzon forced the evacuation of hundreds of military personnel and their families from Clark Air Base to Naval ...

In addition, Clark Airbase, the U.S. facility that became the scientists' command center and home away from home, sat about 9 miles (15 km) from Pinatubo, and a base ... into the air at the ...

Pinatubo was on the verge of a ... helicopters protected the convoy. About 1,500 Air Force employees remained behind at Clark to guard the base and to care for communications gear and other ...

2001-11-11 04:00:00 PDT Tarukan, Philippines-- This tiny hamlet of aboriginal tribesmen is slowly returning to its prosperous past. Ten years ago, Tarukan was home to hundreds of families of a ...

In 1991, Clark, then America’s largest overseas air base, suffered extensive damage from falling ash during the eruption of Mount Pinatubo. The installation was returned to the Philippines soon ...

Below, Fasullo shares his perspective on this discovery. Mount Pinatubo’s eruption, as seen from Clark Air Base. Kentucky National Guard How extreme were Mt. Pinatubo’s emissions compared to ...

Clark Air Base in Angeles City and the Subic Naval Base ... I was in Angeles City months before Mount Pinatubo erupted in 1991. My guide was an Amerasian, the son of a white Air Force officer.

Its inventory includes 183 of the air superiority fighters. Clark and nearby Subic Naval Base formed the largest U.S. overseas military community before both were damaged in the 1991 eruption of Mount ...

The old Clark Air Base Command used to secure Clark Air Base until 1991, when the United States Air Force pulled out weeks before Mt. Pinatubo’s June 15 eruption that year. Since then ...

The training moved to Alaska in 1992 from Clark Air Base in the Philippines following the June 15, 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo. At the time the exercise was known as Cope Thunder. It was ...