2/22/2006 - TUZLA AIR BASE, Bosnia and Herzegovina (AFPN) -- There was a time in the late 1990s when Tuzla Air Base was crawling with hundreds of Airmen. As times changed, the duty of airfield maintenance has increasingly moved into the hands of contractors, but the Air Force still has a presence at the base. While the majority of the U.S. military presence at Tuzla is from the Army, the airfield is manned by three Airmen, supplemented by a team of more than 160 contractors. “Our primary job is to provide a safe and operable airfield for both NATO and...