US Air Force E-3s have regularly visited Souda Bay during operations over neighbouring regions in the last decade.

P-3C Orions are regularly deployed to NSA Souda Bay.

A P-3C Orion assigned to Patrol Squadron 8 (VP-8) ‘Fighting Tigers’ being marshalled at Souda Bay in 2003, when the unit was deployed there to support operations over Iraq.

Fast rope training under way at Souda Bay as part of the annual exercise Phoenix Express, which aims to improve co-operation on maritime security.

The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, deployed as part of the US Sixth Fleet, training in Souda Bay in 2012.

A rare picture of the transient parking area of Souda taken in 1958 with a West German HU-16B and a US Navy Skyraider parked together

A 1960 photo showing the Royal Hellenic Air Force base commander greeting a US Navy admiral and adjutant as they step off a C-131 that’s just arrived from NAF Naples.

Souda is a transit stop for US military assets heading home from deployment, for example this Electronic Attack Squadron 138 (VAQ-138) 'Yellow Jackets' EA-18G Growler.

A US Air Force RC-135V taxiing at Souda in 2011 between missions over Libya during Operation Unified Protector.

US Navy Liaison Flight C-26 Metros shuttle from Souda to Naples and Sigonella.

The USS Harry S Truman carrier deck while it was moored at Souda Bay during a port visit in December 2010.

Groundcrew assigned to Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 40 (VRC-40) 'Rawhides’ move a C-2A Greyhound into the hangar to shelter it from the snow - a rare event in Crete.