Posted on 05/05/2014 8:39:09 PM PDT by Nachum
The Associated Press reported Monday that Gen. Herbert Carlisle, Commander of United States Air Forces in the Pacific, acknowledged a significant increase in the activities by Russian long-range strategic aircraft flying along the California coast.
There was no comment about whether the aircraft were nuclear capable, but it has not been since the Cold War ended in the early 1990s that Russian patrols have skirted the West Coast and California.
Gen. Herbert J. "Hawk" Carlisle is the Commander of Pacific Air Forces; Air Component Commander for U.S. Pacific Command; and Executive Director, Pacific Air Combat Operations Staff, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii. As the PACAF, he is responsible for Air Force activities spread over half the globe in a command that supports 45,000 Airmen serving principally in Japan, Korea, Hawaii, Alaska and Guam.
Speaking Monday, May 5th at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a bipartisan Washington DC think tank, General Carlisle said there had been long-range Russian air patrols to the coast of California and a circumnavigation of the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam. He noted that a U.S. F-15 fighter jet intercepted a Russian strategic bomber that had flown to Guam.
General Carlisle linked the increased activity and incursions to the situation in the Ukraine. He said Russia was demonstrating its capabilities and gathering intelligence on U.S. military exercises.
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Used to be a joke that you could hear those things before you could pick them up on radar.
Big egg beaters
Yep. I agree.
“I wonder if Putin controls Obama...”
You can guarantee that Putin knows every little detail about Bathhouse Barry.
If President Reagan had kept his word and gotten rid of the department of education, our kids would not have been numbed down to the point where we now have an illegal immigrant usurper in the oval office. Reagan did a lot of great things, but he could have stamped out the dept of education and abortion if he had wanted to.
We will not allow that to happen after Maine secedes on June 12, 2018.
This is the education section of the proposed Constitution, the one that will be voted on and accepted with the secession vote of June 12, 2018.
Section 7. All human life is precious and a gift from God. Age is counted from the moment life begins, which is at the moment of conception and as such, all human life is protected from conception to death and has the full rights of this Constitution from conception. Any citizen of the Republic of Maine may use what ever force he or she deems necessary to protect human life. All abortions are considered first degree premeditated murder, children are entrusted, by God the Creator to that child's parents and as such are the responsibility of the parents, not the state, no level of Government whether local, county or Republic is to, in any way, over rule a parent in the rearing, educating, and/or influencing that child in any way.
Section 7a. Education. All education is left to the local community, to the parents first and foremost and then to the city, town or community in which the family resides. The counties and the Republic are explicitly denied any role in a child's education with the exception of Militia members while on duty and prisoners while in the care of the county jail or prison of the Republic. The first and foremost responsibility to teach a child Religion, obedience, patriotism, loyalty, righteousness, and to be a productive member of society rest squarely upon the shoulders of the parent(s), the local communities role is to support and reinforce that parental responsibility.
You Useful idiot of the Putin snd his KGB internet propaganda
You are posting Putin propaganda here.
This photo was done in Russia!
Flexibility.
The Airborne patch is also obviously attached to velcro too big for the patch, and that hand looks uh... foreign... to me.
No confirmation from Crystal Palace.
Ah... so. Thanks.
I believe it's a possibility...
Notice how there are no Russian planes flying near Texas.
Since the advent of the cruise missile, any sizeable military aircraft can be nuclear capable.
Clearly America’s fault. Not enough flexibility.
More likely a Backfire bomber. They have some really healthy jamming equipment.
Why is the flag backwards?
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