Sand Island Air Force Base

The geography of the Sand Island is an old volcanic island that eroded into an atoll, over time. The remains of this volcano can be seen within the local area. One of the islands, that is close to the air base has mountainious features and provides evidence of this ancient volcano. Sand Island Airbase is the closest Osean Facility to the Yuktobanian Continent and the home of the 108th Tactical Fighter Squadron of the Osean Air Defense Force.

The Classified Training Incident
Days before the Circum-Pacific War officially began, on September 24, 2010, Sand Island Air Base had confirmed unknown aircraft entering Sand Island air space. At that time Sand Island Air Traffic Controllers contacted Captain Jack "Hearbreak One" Bartlett, who was in the midst of an ACM training session with Osean Broadcast Company Reporter Albert Gennette. Heartbreak One and three other instructors climbed to engage the unknown fighters, but, sent the trainees into an area directly infront of the unknown aircraft. All but one of the Trainees, Kei Nagase, was killed in action and only two instructors made it successfully to base; one of them being Jack Bartlett. This incident was caused by mis-calculations at Sand Island Air Base. The entire incident was covered up by the Osean Defense Forces and Albert Gennette was forced to stay on the island until further notice.

Classified Engagements
The same day of the training incident, the remaining members of the 'Wardog' 108th Tactical Fighter Squadron (Kei "Edge" Nagase, Alvin H. "Chopper" Davenport and "Blaze") were lead by Jack Barlett and supported by AWACS Thunderhead on an intercept mission. The Osean ADEZ Air Defense System had successfully tracked, fired upon and damaged an SR-71 Blackbird of unknown orgin; the damaged aircraft attempted to egress towards the Ceres Ocean. The 108th made contact with the Blackbird with orders to land at a near by air strip, but were engaged by multiple unknown aircraft, which had come in from vector 280.

Operation Wisdom, 'First Flight' and Operation Vanguard: Home of the 108th TFS War Dog and the closest Osean Base to Yuktobania. In 2010 during the Circum-Pacific War, it was raided multiple times, but repelled each attack successfully. Yuktobania's Large Scale Amphibious Assualt was aimed to take Sand Island, in order to establish a front-line base, but the attack failed and resulted in the destruction of the Scinfaxi.