I remember seeing the tails of parked Buffs at the Amarillo base. The base was closed by the time of Gulf War I, but I am very well acquainted with the pilot who was awarded a medal for the ack-ack holes in his B-52 sustained during the first raid over Baghdad.
Met a B-52 pilot, retired, a couple decades ago. He was a wiry little guy, bright and lively selling merchandise in a dept store where I happened to also work. Retired, but he couldn't just sit down and act retired. He used to talk about flying over Nowhere Province, Canada where some pioneer's porchlight was always on and could be seen 100 miles away. The B-52s navigated by that porchlight. So he said.