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Posted on 04/09/2010 11:51:13 AM PDT by EnjoyingLife
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I wonder how many of these great machines and the crews who fly them will be left when Mr. Obama finally leaves office?
Think of how many more bums, slackers, and racists — you know, Obama’s base — could get even more tax money if Obama scrapped our military...
He’s working on that.
Awesome pictures, thanks!
If I’m especially good this year, will Santa give me one??
You pinged the wrong person. I agree - these are awesome pictures.
You pinged the wrong person.
oops, sorry-I am always overwhelmed by our military!
In the meantime, the Spirit shot makes a fantastic desktop background. In Firefox, just right click on the photo, and then click on “Set as Desktop Background.” Instant coolness.
Are they effective?
Yes?
DEFUND THEM!
Hey yeah, GREAT idea!!!!!
Thx!
I’m glad to know Diego Garcia won’t tip over.
Had me worried there for a moment!!
THE F15-E and the A-10 probably should be included (sorry, my son flew a lot of CAS in a Strike Eagle during Fallujah, and he’s going back to Afghanistan...not sure they are worth it...my two cents).
Anyway, from what I have read, the folks on the ground seem to be glad when either of those two planes is overhead).
Personally, I think we should just keep enough near Afghanistan to destroy whatever threat to us needs to be destroyed.
I hope and pray your son will be safe.
God Bless, and thank him for me,for his service!
Yeh, but, if Algore’s global warming hoax actually comes true, the whole squadron will have to be retrofitted with floats!
Excerpt from "Fifty Years of the B-52" by Walter J. Boyne
http://www.airforce-magazine.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/2001/December%202001/1201buff.aspx
. . . The BUFF's first mission was one for the ages. LeMay made it the linchpin of the American strategy to deter war by making SAC so strong that the Soviet Union would not dare launch a first strike on the United States or its allies. The quick response capability of the B-52 and the undeniable skill of its flight crews were made obvious to Soviet military and political leaders by means of its constant exercises and record-setting flights.
Nikita's Case of Nerves
SAC and the B-52s succeeded in that mission, and never more memorably, during the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. As revealed by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in his memoirs, the presence of nuclear-armed B-52s on orbit outside the borders of the USSR made him think twice and then again about the wisdom of challenging the United States. Eventually, Moscow backed down.
Roger Ferguson, a B-52 navigator during the crisis, recalls that the mission briefings were deadly serious and that plans called for B-52s to enter Soviet airspace at a given point every 12 minutes. Security was suffocating. When Ferguson's crew raced out to their loaded B-52 to launch, they were forced to hit the deck, spread-eagled, by an eager rifle-toting airman. The BUFF commander had forgotten the countersign. It was funny--but not until much later. . .
Diego Garcia?
Awesome picture, EnjoyingLife! Thank you for posting it!
2 of my favorite planes, in the same picture.
God Bless our Air Force!
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