{"id":342241,"date":"2026-01-03T16:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T06:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-military-bases-pacific-strategic-roles\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T16:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T06:00:17","slug":"the-7-us-military-air-bases-in-the-pacific-their-strategic-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=342241","title":{"rendered":"The 7 US Military Air Bases In The Pacific &amp; Their Strategic Roles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2037870\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/strategic-air-force-bases-anchor-american-air-power-pacific\/\" >United States maintains dozens of bases around the Pacific<\/a><\/span> that can be used by its air assets from the Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy, and Army. These include bases on its own sovereign territory, permanent US bases in allied territory, and a presence in allied air bases. Some of these airbases are permanent, while others are rotational.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outside of the mainland, the US military has fighter jets permanently deployed in Japan, South Korea, and Hawaii, although more places host air bases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,475,2125,412,918,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-f-15","category-military","category-pacific","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=342241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342242,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342241\/revisions\/342242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=342241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=342241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=342241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}