Tom Cole: “Suda Bay, which is a big, again, American naval support…”

“But now focus is primarily looking into Africa, but looking also the eastern Mediterranean. Then later in the trip we also went to Greece and we visited what's called Suda Bay, which is a big, again, American naval support facility on Crete. Again, we have an extraordinarily close cooperative relationship with our friends the Greeks, who are of course allies as well, and close NATO partners out of, out of Souda Bay.” (01:27–01:35)

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