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The name doesn't necessarily help. >> eja -- >> jokull. i don't 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 can't say it. i've been practicing for 60 years. >> reporter: then we have 60 years to learn this. >> it's pronounced similar to yo, i forget the light yogurt. >> reporter: the light yogurt part. >> i ...

>> reporter: they do, indeed, kiran. whenever there's 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 won't attempt to pronounce. this is now a military operation. let's 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. raf, the u.s. air force base has both bases shut down. in germany, the air base at ramstein and sha...

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 won't even try and pronounce it. we'll 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, they've been shut down for days now. two, first off, in the uk. raf milleden hall, and lakeen heave, and spendall imand ramstein. ramstein is where the u.s. milit...