The base was thus supplied from the air through a makeshift airfield.

Some light infantry troops could be flown into Uzbekistan or makeshift airfields in Afghanistan.

The people who greeted them as they stepped from the small plane on the makeshift airfield were small, and dark, and all but naked.

Both sides had a small air arm, and the British established a makeshift airfield at Bakaritsa, near Archangel.

Hundreds of marines landed at a makeshift airfield near the southern city of Kandahar today in the first major infusion of American ground troops into Afghanistan.

First, the military needs an all-service, highly mobile all-weather precision approach system, tailorable to a wide range of environments, from shipboard use to rapid installation at makeshift airfields.

Some of the documentary's most fascinating clips are the plainest, because they are the most unfamiliar: tanks thwarted by thick hedges in rural Normandy or cows ambling by a makeshift airfield.

In the months following 9/11, as hundreds of Marines landed on makeshift airfields near the city of Kandahar for the first wave of military operations in Afghanistan, war photographers Balazs Gardi and Teru Kuwayama travelled to the region to begin covering what Gardi calls "the Afghan theatre".