1.   A cannon blast marked the start of the ceremony at this sprawling military base deep in the jungles of southern Colombia.

2.   But in the necklace of forlorn hamlets that circles the sprawling base here, the mission was cloaked in confusion, secrecy and the anxiety of those left behind.

3.   Four Marine aviators were killed Monday night when their Osprey crashed in thick woods a dozen miles north of the sprawling Marine Corps base at Camp Lejeune, N.C.

4.   In a brief appearance at the sprawling military base here, Bush thanked the troops and their families before heading to Camp David for Thanksgiving.

5.   It first moved south to the U.S. Navy installation at Yokohama, then to the sprawling base at Yokosuka.

6.   It was the fifth attack on the sprawling base, known as Zhawar Kili, in a week.

7.   Many of the airstrikes are normally staged from the sprawling Russian base here at Mozdok, in the Russian republic of North Ossetia just northwest of Chechnya.

8.   Margarita Morales hugged her son, in his beret and military fatigues, at a gas station outside this sprawling Army base Friday afternoon.

9.   Subic Bay now employs more people than the U.S. Navy did when it occupied the sprawling base, Gordon said.

10.   That trend was capped at a sprawling Saudi military base last Friday by the first face-to-face meeting between Clinton and the king.