In terms of airport density, if Guam calls itself the second, there is probably no place in the world who dares to call itself the first.

Guam, an island with an area of ​​less than 550 square kilometers and a population of less than 180,000, actually has three airports madly.

You know, even New York, a city known as the busiest airline in the world, has only three airports. How big is New York? 789 square kilometers? How many people are there in New York? More than 20 million!

But there is no way, who makes Guam’s strategic position too important? Therefore, in these three airports on Guam, except for the commercial Antonio Wanpat International Airport, the other two airports are military airports belonging to the US military.

The airport in Anderson Strategic Air Force Base, located at the Igo Heights at the northeast end of the island, has a total of four runways, two main runways and two spare runways. Both of the main runways are more than 3,800 meters long, which is enough for any aircraft in the world to take off and land on these two runways.

This airport in Anderson Strategic Air Force Base is one of the world's top military airports.

However, the airport that Yang Jing and the others are going to today is not this top military airport. After all, Anderson's strategic air force base is the top priority of the US military, and the management there is extremely strict. Not to mention Yang Jing and the others, even ordinary active soldiers at the base will not be able to enter the airport without a special pass.

Although George's father was a major general at the base, he was not able to lead such a large group of people who were not active-duty soldiers into the airport. That was a move to lose his job, and he could even go to the military court if he was serious.

Therefore, Yang Jing and the others can only go to the airport located in the northwest corner of Guam today.

Speaking of this airport, it can be said to be the oldest airport on Guam. Before the Pacific War, this airport was built by the Americans, but later, the Japanese occupied Guam and expanded the airport, turning it into the Japanese's most important military airport in Guam.

Later, the Americans recaptured Guam again and built Anderson Strategic Air Force Base from the northeast corner of the airport, so the airport gradually became a backup airport. Although the US Air Force was affiliated with the US Army during World War II, the US Air Force became independent in 1947 and became an independent branch of the service. So later the US military simply transferred the airport to the Army, making the airport a backup airport under the jurisdiction of the US Army.

However, although the jurisdiction of this airport belongs to the US Army, most of the rights to use it are still in the US Air Force, because the US Air Force often uses this airport to train new pilots.

"BOSS, when I was serving in Guam, I was training at this airport." Sitting in the Hummer, George pointed to the slightly dilapidated airport, and connected with a look of memories.

From a distance, this airport is indeed a bit dilapidated. Generally speaking, there are no tall plants such as trees near the airport runway, but this airport is full of lush trees between the four runways, and the canopy of some trees even covers the spare runway located on the westmost side.

"How did this airport become so dilapidated? Just like this, can it take off and land the plane?" Yang Jing didn't understand the situation. After all, it was a military airport, which was very valuable. The length of the two main runways was 2,800 meters, which was enough to allow most American military aircraft to take off and land smoothly, but it was a bit unreasonable to be here so deserted.

Paul Adriano answered this question, perhaps Aaron said of him, or perhaps he understood that Yang Jing was a real billionaire, and he could not be offended by a small officer like him, so Paul Adriano's attitude became very good today.

"Now the jurisdiction of this base belongs to the Army. Although our Air Force uses this airport to train new pilots every year, the training costs we give to the Army are not enough to maintain this airport. The majority of the airport maintenance costs still have to be obtained by the Army. If it is a base in the local area or in the Middle East, North Africa or even Europe, the army's funds are still sufficient. But this is Guam, here, the army has almost no effect, and this is the world of the navy and the air force. So..."

Paul turned his head and made a "you understand" expression, and Yang Jing immediately knew why the airport was so dilapidated.

In a word, no money!

Although the United States is always awesome to fight this and that, the US military is actually not having a good life. Due to the political system, even the military expenditure of the US military needs to be approved by Congress. If according to US law, the US military's cost of purchasing a screw should be approved by Congress.

It would be fine if the US Congress was united, but just a Republican and Democratic Party would be like a god-like brain. In a peacetime without war, who would still pay attention to the maintenance costs of your Army Airport stationed in Guam?

Speaking of this, the US Congress has complained about the Department of Defense. Do you think your Department of Defense is in a brain? An army is well-off and wants to get a good airport? The army has road and aviation troops, but most of them are helicopters. There is a place to take off and land. As for using such a large airport to take off and land helicopters? Are you planning to use this airport as the apron of your army aviation troops?

Since you, the US military, are doing such a mistake, why do you blame our Congress for not approving you maintenance funds?

Can you approve funds at will when you see our Congress? The funds approved by our Congress must be made public and subject to supervision. If we make a fee for maintenance of an Army airport, we may understand the situation. But most American voters don’t know about this. Do you want us to throw away votes from voters?

So, let’s wait until your US military has sorted out this matter itself!

In this way, you argue and I quarrel, and the airport will become what it is now. If the Air Force had not paid part of the airport maintenance fee to the Army every year, even the two main runways would have been useless now.

If it weren't for seeing it with your own eyes, Yang Jing would have difficulty believing that such a thing would have happened to the dignified US military.

This is a serious military airport. Although the runway is a little shorter, it is also a modern military airport worth hundreds of millions of dollars, not a bus station!

But such a military airport worth hundreds of millions of dollars was eventually ruined because of the disputes between senior management. Isn’t this nonsense or what?

No wonder Americans clamor for American senior officials to waste taxpayers’ money every day. Judging from this airport, Americans are really right.

If this were in China, would such a good airport dare to be so deserted? The person in charge would have been arrested long ago...

Perhaps it is this situation where grandma doesn’t love my uncle and doesn’t love her, which makes the US Army stationed here not very popular with this airport. Compared with the airport at Anderson Strategic Air Force Base next door, the management of the airport is simply the old lady’s belt - loose and collapsed.

In such a huge airport, there are only two soldiers on duty in front of the gate, and they all look weak.

As an air force lieutenant colonel who often leads new pilots to train here, Paul has long been familiar with the soldiers on duty here. In addition, he is a serious lieutenant colonel. Although he is an air force lieutenant colonel, these soldiers cannot afford to offend, so Yang Jing and his group entered the base without much effort.

Paul didn't even take out his ID, so he could just scan his face here.

On the way to the airport to the hangar, Yang Jing finally realized the degree of dilapidation of the airport.

What does the airport do? Needless to say, everyone knows this. It is said that the hangars of military airports are generally parked with high-value aircraft, such as the hangars of American military airports, and strategic bombers and air early warning aircraft are usually parked in the hangars of military airports in the United States. Ordinary fighter jets can only be parked in the tarmac outside.

But no matter what, most of the aprons of US military airports are filled with various military aircraft. However, Yang Jing did not see a single aircraft on the apron of this airport, but instead they were all of them.

As if he felt Yang Jing's sight, George also smiled bitterly and shook his head and said, "The hangars in this airport are all trainers, because there are only trainers left at this airport. As for the apron, it has become a parking lot."

Forget it, I won’t consider these things anymore. This is not Tianqu Airport being built, what does it have to do with me?

After driving past the apron in the northeast corner of the airport, the car walked forward and arrived at the hangar not long.

Like most military airport hangars, the airport hangars are mostly semi-underground, and because the hangars are surrounded by lush trees, it is difficult to find the door of the hangar in the air. From the perspective of concealment, these big trees that have grown for decades are not useless.

After getting out of the car, Paul walked to the hangar gate, entered a series of passwords from the electronic lock on the side of the door, the door slowly opened with a rumbling sound, and the light inside also lit up. A light gray twin-engine heavy fighter immediately appeared in front of Yang Jing.

Since childhood, this is the first time Yang Jing has had such close contact with a real fighter jet, and it is also the famous F15 fighter jet.
Chapter completed!