Top 10 Most Remote American Outposts in the World

Описание: To pick where a military base goes has to be an easy job. Putting a military base in a place where there’s fighting is a no-brainer. But sometimes you find these bases on tiny islands that can’t be seen, even when you zoom in entirely on Google Maps and have no civilization for miles around. Why they put bases is there is a mystery. Here are ten of the most remote military bases. Seriously, we feel bad for the guys deployed there; they must have huge balls to survive.

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10. Shemya Island
9. Andersen Air Force Base
8. Base at Diego Garcia
7. Kunsan Air Base
6. Korengal Valley, Afghanistan
5. Pine Gap
4. Area 51
3. Shamsi Air Base
2. Wake Island
1. Thule Air Base

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunsan_A...
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-S...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Gap
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/world...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_atoll
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule_Ai...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fo...
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