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The name doesnt necessarily help. >> eja -- >> jokull. i dont know. >> altogether now. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: time to go up to iceland to get schooled by the natives. >> eyja means island. fjalla means mountain and jokull means glacier. >> easy to say. eyjafjallajokull. >> reporter: yeah, but what english words trip them up? >> pneumonia. how do you spell it? >> something meaning tired. i cant say it. ive been practicing for 60 years. >> reporter: then we have 60 years to learn this. >> its...

>> reporter: they do, indeed, kiran. whenever theres a mess somewhere in the world that the military has to deal with, they like to code name it. known as operation e-15, e for first letter of the volcano and 15 other letters that i wont attempt to pronounce. this is now a military operation. lets look at a couple of maps. this will show you where key bases are shut down in europe impacting the flow of cargo passengers and wounded. first in britain, in the united kingdom, two bases shut down. ra...

Whenever they have a mess they have to deal with, they like to name it. so this now has a military code name, ali. this is now called operation e-15. e for the first letter of the volcano, 15 for the 15 letters following that. i wont even try and pronounce it. well call it operation e-15. what are we really talking about? there are four major air fields, if you will, in europe now shut down because of all this. even if they reopen, theyve been shut down for days now. two, first off, in the uk. r...