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To: george76

I wish they were reactivating the 100th bomb group but I would guess you would have to call it a bomb wing.


22 posted on 09/03/2009 4:33:36 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: imahawk

The “Bloody 100th” was deactivated as an Air Refueling Wing when I was stationed at Beale AFB in the 1980s. It is now active at RAF Mildenhall from what I have heard. The legacy lives on even if it is only tanker trash keeping it alive and growing. As we told the Fighter jock that called us that in my youth, “we may be trash, but it’s a long swim home without us!”

As a Baby Boomer in a KC-135A (stream jet) back in 1979 I cut my teeth on refueling the B-52. You couldn’t miss the receptacle it had a huge slipway to guide the boom in for a contact. I wonder if they plan on gluing the wings and tail sections back on to the old models that got cut up when I was working the START Treaty in another life.


33 posted on 09/03/2009 5:28:19 PM PDT by KC-10A BOOMER (Cry Havoc and Let Slip the Dogs of War!)
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