They link up with CincPac and CincLant ABNCPs, along with Navy's TACAMO to form the Minimum Essential Emergency Communications Network (MEECN).
This network has kept us all alive for over 40 years. Literally.
That two of these aircraft are out of service is classified at least Top Secret.
And here it is published by British and French media.
How could they know?
The US AIR FORCE TOLD THEM!
So, was this action by the Russian weather machines? Maybe Sheila Jackson Lee can shed some light on this incident.
I remember when they went into service. They were amazingly quiet compared to the other 4 engined jets there. Except in sub -20 degree weather when they were ear splitting.
Putting half of the aircraft in tornado alley isn’t quite as stupid as porting all of the Atlantic aircraft carriers in one spot.
The smart deployment would be one at Offutt, one at Barksdale, one at Andrews, and one in the west.
I guess when the AF spec designers figured that you only had to withstand the heat of nuclear bombs, since they generate just a slight breeze.
“Two were damaged June 16 at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska when a tornado whipped through the area with little advance warning.”
Tornados do that. Might be news to the reporter though.
I live about 12 miles straight west of Offutt. About 15 minutes before this happened the wife and I were standing out on the driveway watching the storms come in. I pointed out that I thought the clouds passing over the neighborhood moving east appeared to be rotating. Sure enough they issued a tornado warning for the east side of the county. There were actually two tornadoes, one that went through the base and another one that went through some neighborhoods nearby. There were several houses severely damaged and or destroyed and lots of other houses with minor damage as well.
We spent the entire night bailing out our sump pits because the power was out. That was a pain in the butt but after hearing what happened I am very thankful that I still have a house.
As I said earlier today, with today’s military, we’d never win WWIII.
Mariner :" That two of these aircraft are out of service is classified at least Top Secret."
Well now , the NORKS know where to find them !
They can probably adjust their missels appropriately
Let’s see, the E4-B is metal, has wheels and you can live in it for days. It might not be a trailer, but I can see why the tornado would think it is when it is on the hunt.
*sigh* Journalist. So ignorant, yet writing so self-assuredly. There is no material on earth that withstand the heat of a nuclear blast. Were basically talking about the internal temperature of the Sun.
Now the plane might have additional radiation shielding, but surviving the blast of a fusion weapon; f'getaboudit.
The father of my college roomate was in charge of this program during the 80’s. The Colonel was visiting us at college for parents day. In the afteroon two soldiers pulled up and told the Colonel he needed to leave with them. Sure enough, we tossed bombs at Gadaffi about 12 hours later.