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Russian Strategic Bombers Flying Along California Coast
Breitbart ^ | 5/5/14 | Chriss W. Street

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: bombers; california; coldwar2; communism; putinsbuttboys; russia; russian; sovietunion; strategic
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Better video

Dutch Royal air force?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdVHER33y6Y


61 posted on 05/05/2014 11:20:25 PM PDT by mylife
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To: Nachum

Used to be a joke that you could hear those things before you could pick them up on radar.


62 posted on 05/05/2014 11:42:11 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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To: Rashputin

Big egg beaters


63 posted on 05/05/2014 11:43:34 PM PDT by mylife
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To: MinuteGal

Yep. I agree.


64 posted on 05/06/2014 12:45:40 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: GOPJ

“I wonder if Putin controls Obama...”

You can guarantee that Putin knows every little detail about Bathhouse Barry.


65 posted on 05/06/2014 3:17:55 AM PDT by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: Nachum
"The 1980’s are calling, and we want Ronald Reagan back."

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.

66 posted on 05/06/2014 4:06:41 AM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine (Be kept informed on Maine's secession, sign up at freemaine@hushmail.com)
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To: windcliff

You Useful idiot of the Putin snd his KGB internet propaganda
You are posting Putin propaganda here.
This photo was done in Russia!


67 posted on 05/06/2014 4:08:11 AM PDT by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force)
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To: Nachum

Flexibility.


68 posted on 05/06/2014 5:45:54 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: gnarledmaw

The Airborne patch is also obviously attached to velcro too big for the patch, and that hand looks uh... foreign... to me.


69 posted on 05/06/2014 6:50:59 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: Nachum

No confirmation from Crystal Palace.


70 posted on 05/06/2014 6:53:39 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: TheOldLady
The Airborne patch is also obviously attached to velcro too big for the patch,

That is how all the army shoulder patches are done these days.
71 posted on 05/06/2014 7:24:13 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: TalonDJ

Ah... so. Thanks.


72 posted on 05/06/2014 7:53:20 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: fhayek
Of course Putin controls him. It’s called being ‘flexible’.

I believe it's a possibility...

73 posted on 05/06/2014 8:01:17 AM PDT by GOPJ ( Are we finally going to get a smidgen of truth? - - Freeper Veto!)
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To: Nachum
Putin got the ok from Obama, Barry's demonstrating his "flexibility."

Notice how there are no Russian planes flying near Texas.

74 posted on 05/06/2014 8:03:02 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (For every Ted Cruz we send to DC, I can endure 2-3 "unviable" candidates that beat incumbents.)
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To: Nachum
There was no comment about whether the aircraft were nuclear capable...

Since the advent of the cruise missile, any sizeable military aircraft can be nuclear capable.

75 posted on 05/06/2014 11:01:02 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Nachum

Clearly America’s fault. Not enough flexibility.


76 posted on 05/08/2014 5:10:20 AM PDT by Grzegorz 246
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To: mylife

More likely a Backfire bomber. They have some really healthy jamming equipment.


77 posted on 05/08/2014 5:12:10 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: Hoodat

Why is the flag backwards?


78 posted on 05/08/2014 5:19:20 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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