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TILLIL AIRFIELD, Iraq - This fast-developing American air hub in southern Iraq now provides a way station for tank-busting A-10 Warthog jets, a key weapon in the U.S.-led assault on Saddam Hussein's Medina division of the Republican Guard. The first A-10 came into Tillil Saturday night, and through the day and night Sunday the jets flew hard-turning arcs in the sky near the embattled city of An Nasiriyah. In combat, the jets fly low in close support of ground troops as they hunt enemy armored vehicles. With Tillil, the jets have a place to launch missions within an hour...

<p>With two days of sandstorms finally over, allied warplanes flew 1,500 sorties against targets in north and south Iraq yesterday, while coalition troops resumed their march north to Baghdad.</p> <p>The planes dropped bombs "just about as fast as we can load them," said Capt. Thomas Parker aboard the USS Kitty Hawk in the Persian Gulf.</p>

TALLIL AIRFIELD, southern Iraq - Five days after a U.S. Army infantry division seized control of this long-dormant air base, the U.S. Air Force landed a C-130 transport plane Thursday on a runway freshly cleared of truck parts and concrete blocks. U.S.-led forces now can use Iraq's second-largest airport - smaller only than Saddam International Airport in Baghdad - to deliver materiel far up a supply line that stretches several hundred miles into Iraq from Kuwait. Pleased with their success, airmen posted a sign on a fence that said, "Bush International Airport." The airfield is about 5 miles from...

Ok.. TWICE today (That we've heard) Fox News has announced that the troops have named the Northern Iraq Airport they took over.. "Bush International Airport". That is a HUGE sign of respect for the Commander in Chief!!! They just spoke of it again at 8:45 pm PT. I looked to see if this news was posted anywhere.. and couldn't find it. But it is just too awesome to ignore. God Bless our Troops and God Bless our Commander in Chief!

First Flight Lands At 'Bush International' Captured Iraqi Airfield Renamed In Honor Of The President Mar 27, 2003 3:35 pm US/Eastern (AP) (TALLIL AIRFIELD, Southern Iraq) The first U.S. airplane landed Thursday at a key Iraqi airfield, which forces informally renamed "Bush International Airport." The captured airfield is expected to be a major resupply base and transport hub for American forces. A C-130 transport plane glided down onto a 12,000-foot runway newly cleared of concrete blocks, wrecked vehicles and other barriers placed on the strip by the Iraqi military to prevent its use. A hastily erected sign at the airfield's...