1.   Exploration is taking place in formerly inaccessible areas, resulting in the clearance of forest for air strips, base camps and test sites.

2.   An air strip is also being built in the Northern Alliance controlled portion of northeast Afghanistan near the town of Golbahar.

3.   And the Marines complied, scrounging, inventing and creating a temporary home at their desert air strip in this barren patch of Afghanistan.

4.   Andrews, of Solon, Maine, was killed last week in a forklift accident while building an air strip in Qatar.

5.   A master sergeant was killed last week in a forklift accident while constructing an air strip in Qatar, on the Persian Gulf.

6.   But Japanese bombers did hit neighboring Horn Island, which had an air strip.

7.   Its air strip had by then become outdated and too small for the new generation of aircraft.

8.   So they decided to build up the old Albanian military air strip about a mile down the road from the UAE camp.

9.   The air strip where they experimented is now a part of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

10.   The Marines worked Friday to improve their camp at a former Taliban air strip in the high desert, U.S. officials said.