About 28 of the former US military bases in Vietnam where the herbicides were stored and loaded onto airplanes may still have high level of dioxins in the soil, posing a health threat to the surrounding communities.

It opposes US military bases and nuclear weapons in Europe and British membership of NATO.

In August 1962, after some unsuccessful operations by the US to overthrow the Cuban regime ( Bay of Pigs, Operation Mongoose ), the Cuban and Soviet governments secretly began to build bases in Cuba for a number of medium-range and intermediate-range ballistic nuclear missiles ( MRBMs and IRBMs ) with the ability to strike most of the continental United States.

The US announced that it would not permit offensive weapons to be delivered to Cuba and demanded that the Soviets dismantle the missile bases already under construction or completed in Cuba and remove all offensive weapons.

Several American and Danish military bases are located in Greenland, including the US Thule Air Base.

When the Taliban refused to hand over bin Laden to US authorities and to disband al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan, Operation Enduring Freedom was launched in which teams of American and British special forces worked with commanders of the United Front ( Northern Alliance ) against the Taliban.

The entire Panama Canal, the area supporting the Canal, and remaining US military bases were turned over to Panama on December 31, 1999.

On September 7, 1977, the Torrijos-Carter Treaties were signed by the Panamanian head of state and U. S. President Jimmy Carter for the complete transfer of the Canal and the fourteen US army bases from the US to Panama by 1999.

Spam was also used by US soldiers in Korea as a means of trading for items, services or information around their bases.

In November 2001, Taliban, Al-Qaeda combatants and ISI operatives were safely evacuated from Kunduz on Pakistan Army cargo aircraft to Pakistan Air Force bases in Chitral and Gilgit in Pakistan's Northern Areas in what has been dubbed the " Airlift of Evil " Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf wrote in his memoirs that Richard Armitage, the former US deputy secretary of state, said Pakistan would be " bombed back to the stone-age " if it continued to support the Taliban, although Armitage has since denied using the " stone age " phrase.

In November 2001, before the capture of Kunduz by United Front troops under the command of Mohammad Daud Daud, thousands of top commanders and regular fighters of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence agents and military personnel, and other volunteers and sympathizers in the Kunduz airlift, dubbed the Airlift of Evil by US military forces around Kunduz and subsequently used as a term in media reports, were evacuated and airlifted out of Kunduz by Pakistan Army cargo aircraft to Pakistan Air Force air bases in Chitral and Gilgit in Pakistan's Northern Areas.

Subsequent to joining the military effort, the two countries signed an agreement in late 1992 allowing for US bases on Emirate soil.

A joint statement of the member countries of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation issued in early July, 2005 on a conference in Astana ( Kazakstan ) called for a withdrawal of US troops from military bases in Central Asia.

On November 21, 2005, the withdrawal of US troops from Karshi-Khanabad and any other bases was completed.

For several years after World War II, the US developed and maintained a strategic force based on the Convair B-36 bomber that would be able to attack any potential enemy from bomber bases in the US.

Effective 1 September 1995, both US military bases were closed ; British and Canadian bases on the island closed at about the same time.

Heath refused to allow US intelligence gathering from British bases in Cyprus, resulting in a temporary halt in the US signals intelligence tap.

He also refused permission for the US to use any UK bases for resupply.

Christopher Boyce, who was convicted for spying for the Soviet Union while an employee for a CIA contractor, claimed that the CIA wanted Whitlam removed from office because he threatened to close US military bases in Australia, including Pine Gap.

Other Canadian fast food chains such as Manchu Wok serve North American style Asian foods ; this company is located mainly in Canada and the USA, with other outlets on US military bases on other continents.

The initial goals of Japanese leaders were to neutralize the US Navy, seize possessions rich in natural resources, and establish strategic military bases to defend Japan's empire in the Pacific Ocean and Asia.

* 1975 – General Cao Van Vien, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory.

Much of the surrounding countryside was closed to the public while it was used by US troops for practise landings and manoeuvres.

To satisfy the terms of an agreement between the UK and the US for an uninhabited island, the plantation on Diego Garcia was closed in October of that year.

The first patrol of a Trident-armed submarine occurred in 1994, although the US base was closed at the end of the Cold War.

During this time, Many former employees of the closed Indiana plant moved to Fenton for employment ; so many, in fact, that entire subdivisions of new homes sprang up south of the plant, near what was then US Route 66.

Aerial approach to the former US Naval base on Johnston Atoll which closed on June 15, 2004.

* A closed shop ( US ) or a " pre-entry closed shop " ( UK ) employs only people who are already union members.

* A union shop ( US ) or a " post-entry closed shop " ( UK ) employs non-union workers as well, but sets a time limit within which new employees must join a union.

Sounds surface in road safety advertisements: " clunk click, every trip " ( click the seatbelt on after clunking the car door closed ; UK campaign ) or " click, clack, front and back " ( click, clack of connecting the seatbelts ; AU campaign ) or " click it or ticket " ( click of the connecting seatbelt ; US DOT campaign ).

Many university laboratories in the United States have closed, citing a lack of acceptance by mainstream science as the reason ; the bulk of parapsychology research in the US is now confined to private institutions funded by private sources.

After the collapse of the Siad Barre government and the start of the Somali Civil War in the early 1990s, the US embassy in Mogadishu closed down.

In 1999, the aluminium smelter at Paranam was closed and mining at Onverdacht ceased ; however, alumina exports accounted for 72 % of Suriname's estimated export earnings of US $ 496. 6 million in 2001.

According to the Natural Law Party official web site, the national headquarters of the Natural Law Party closed effective on April 30, 2004 and the US Peace Government is now carrying forward the programs, policies, and ideals of the Natural Law Party.

A statement issued on the embassy's website said: " The US Embassy in Sana ' a is closed today, in response to ongoing threats by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ( AQAP ) to attack American interests in Yemen ".

* March 10 – Floodgates of The Dalles Dam are closed, inundating Celilo Falls and ancient Indian fisheries along the Columbia River in Oregon, US.

The gun system has been retired from US Army service ; howitzers above 155 mm caliber are no longer effective as technology has closed the range and firepower gap, and heavier weapon systems require more resources to operate.

Yemeni authorities also closed down the local offices of the US cargo firms United Parcel Service and FedEx, who had already suspended all shipments out of the country and pledged full co-operation with investigators.

In the early 1990s, following the end of the Cold War the garrison tradition of the town came to an end when the Bundeswehr's Margrave Barracks ( Markgrafenkaserne ) and the Röhrensee Barracks ( Röhrenseekaserne ), used by the US Army and the BGS ( Grenzschutzabteilung Süd 3 ), were closed.

The US has subsequently closed all diplomatic missions in Pakistan.

A local factory that manufactured sugar-cane harvesters was closed down after it was taken over by the US multinational corporation Case New Holland.

On December 3, 2010, Disney closed the sale of Miramax for US $ 663 million to Filmyard Holdings, an investment group.