Naming
The name used generally refers to the type of military activity that takes place at the base.
A military base may go by any of a number of names, such as the following:
- Air station
- Armory (military)
- Arsenal
- Barracks
- Casern
- DoDAAC
- Facility
- Fortification
- Garrison
- Installation (in the generic)
- Joint base
- Magazine (artillery)
- Marine Corps base
- Military airbase, airfield or field
- Military camp
- Naval air station
- Naval base
- Naval dockyard
- Post
- Presidio
- Proving ground
- Reservation
- Shipyard or yard
- Station
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Famous quotes containing the word naming:
“Husband,
who am I to reject the naming of foods
in a time of famine?”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“See, see where Christ’s blood streams in the firmament!
One drop would save my soul—half a drop! ah, my Christ!—
Ah, rend not my heart for naming of my Christ!—
Yet will I call on him!—O, spare me, Lucifer!—
Where is it now? ‘T is gone; and see where God
Stretcheth out his arm, and bends his ireful brows!—
Mountains and hills, come, come and fall on me,
And hide me from the heavy wrath of God!”
—Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)
“The night is itself sleep
And what goes on in it, the naming of the wind,
Our notes to each other, always repeated, always the same.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)