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'Mother of All Bombs': US Forces Drop Massive Non-Nuclear Bomb in Afghanistan
Foxnews ^ | 4/13/17 | FOX News

Posted on 04/13/2017 10:00:50 AM PDT by johnk

U.S. forces have dropped what is known as the "mother of all bombs" in Afghanistan. The device is the largest non-nuclear device in the Air Force arsenal, Fox News' Jennifer Griffin reported. It was dropped in Nangarhar Province, an eastern area near the Pakistan border. It's the first time the 21,000-pound ordnance has been used in combat, said Griffin. The device, developed in 2003 by the U.S. Air Force, is called the M.O.A.B, short for Massive Ordnance Air Blast. It's often referred to as the "mother of all bombs." Watch the report above.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; bomb; gbu43b; isis; military; moab; oef; pakistan; trump; trump45; trumpgwot
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To: johnk

He started at 13 (jt high)
And graduated high school. He was very popular with both students and faculty. Participated in many sports and rose the top officer level his sr year.
The stories his friends tell are quite entertaining. They keep in touch and use many kind words— considerate, generous etc. All use the word FUN

One said if there was a prank on campus he was the first one called in. (If he wasn’t involved he knew who was )

A friend who is now a lawyer said when he first arrived at school he was a target of bullying. POTUS befriended him and he no longer had problems (he had many Jewish friends)

Another tells of one school dance several young ladies showed up thinking they were DJT date. Instead he made certain all his friends had dates for the evening.


341 posted on 04/13/2017 7:37:58 PM PDT by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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To: grwcfl537

“I knew Larry Tart when I was in a Naval Detachment assigned to the 6916th.”

He is doing great research with these books.
I spoke with Larry Keefe (co-author) for 30 minutes Dec 2016, he also lost best friend in 60528 C-130 shoot down.

He was stationed at Rhein Mein AFB with my Dad, both radio interceptors/linguists.


342 posted on 04/13/2017 7:41:29 PM PDT by johnk (faithful with little....)
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To: johnk
...."That has to be a scorching, deafening, bone smashing, flesh melting, eye popping living hell.....Merry Christmas ISIS....New Years present coming soon. A$$hol@s."....

Oh yes indeedy!....

Imagine seeing this bomb raining down on you....then smoke......

.....THEN FIRE!.....


343 posted on 04/13/2017 8:29:06 PM PDT by caww
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To: johnk

344 posted on 04/13/2017 8:56:52 PM PDT by caww
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To: Jet Jaguar

The ONLY way to Deal with Terrorists is to Bring a Higher Level of TERROR to them...this they understand.


345 posted on 04/13/2017 9:00:23 PM PDT by caww
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To: johnk

A good old fashioned FAE will always get the attention of retards like islams. Not everyone knows about the next generation of persuaders....the Particle Reaction Localized
Device. The PRLD will replace the current “atomic” crude reactions that just split “atoms.”

While the particles we know and can detect will be programmed how to react, we still don’t know how their infinitely small components will “react” to us exploiting their biggers, one can only hope they will understand the removal of islam will
stop their environment from stinking so badly and they will invincibly ignore our actions.

It’s always High Noon somewhere ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6Q65yNStcM&index=2&list=PLqahuOnbQGyjYSm1bCjI0TUxu_M7mtWxU


346 posted on 04/13/2017 9:04:38 PM PDT by soycd
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To: kabar

Don’t forget Kim U-fat


347 posted on 04/13/2017 10:29:32 PM PDT by BigEdLB (To Dimwitocrats: We won. You lost. Get used to it.)
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To: Jim 0216

Poppy fields, ISIS, haquanni, taliban,for starters.


348 posted on 04/14/2017 12:00:43 AM PDT by rodguy911 (Home of the Free because of the brave.MAGA!!)
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To: BuffaloJack
It was only 3 or 4 hours ago that I was reading about Kim Jong Un’s tunnel complex under Pyongyang. Was this a practice run for North Korea?

First they have to be open to the surface so that when the MOAB which is a fuel enriched (very very large) high explosive goes off will pull all of the oxygen from out of the tunnel complex virtually killing any living thing in the tunnel.

I believe it was and your question was a very good one after all the jibberish posts ahead of you. I am positive the American forces in SK have the tunnels mapped and now they are just trying to device a plan to open, and then kill all living breathing things that exist in those tunnel complexes.

Will NK leadership get the message and stand down or have they already stepped off the cliff and too late to step back is what I am wondering.

349 posted on 04/14/2017 2:57:04 AM PDT by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it, but ready to go again)
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To: Jim 0216
Dang man, pay attention. You completely missed my point.

There is no use arguing with this guy. Either he has PTSD or cannot read. I think he cannot read and is illiterate.

350 posted on 04/14/2017 3:00:48 AM PDT by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it, but ready to go again)
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To: johnk

A C-130 flying over a missile battery infested NK at 30,000’ seems particularly vulnerable. What am I missing here? I know FR’s best and brightest won’t let me down.


351 posted on 04/14/2017 3:36:32 AM PDT by freepersup (A freeper behind every blade of grass. / Count your blessings!)
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To: Jim 0216

Killing them there before they can try to kill us here.


352 posted on 04/14/2017 4:31:41 AM PDT by gbaker
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To: z3n

The BLU-82 Daisy Cutter was about 10,000 pounds. The MOAB is twice that and is GPS guided.


353 posted on 04/14/2017 4:54:23 AM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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To: johnk

Has any news agency [I use the moniker loosely] used the correct term: Massive Ordinance Air Bomb [MOAB]? all I hear is *Mother of All Bombs*


354 posted on 04/14/2017 4:59:18 AM PDT by Daffynition ("The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder" - The MLN didn't make Trump, so they can't break Trump.)
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To: johnk

Tourism will take a BIG jump at Arches this year.

It’s just a mkile or two north of MOAB, Utah.


355 posted on 04/14/2017 5:41:02 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Veto!

“But allow me an hour to get over the gut feeling that bombs are the wrong thing. “

I had the same initial reaction. My whole body tightened up, a giant cringe. Slowly getting over it. Don’t know if it is a mama bear thing on my part but as I learn more about this bomb, I’m settling into the fact that it was a good thing. I needed a lot longer than an hour, though.

Woke up from a nightmare at 4:30 this morning with a lingering fuzzy picture of Drudge with timelines of how the United States had been attacked over night. First New York, then Chicago. *shudder* It was creepy!


356 posted on 04/14/2017 5:47:18 AM PDT by samiam1972 ("It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."-Mother Teresa)
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To: Veto!

I still have these same feelings and remind myself each time we haven’t been the global leader we should have been for the last 8 years. As such we have been conditioned to no longer lead but follow so when something like this occurs we are shaken.

With the void in leadership Russia who has no US interests in mind have filled the leadership gap serving their own interests and weakening the US. If it isn’t the US it certainly won’t be the UN.


357 posted on 04/14/2017 6:36:22 AM PDT by Jarhead9297
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To: samiam1972
Woke up from a nightmare at 4:30 this morning with a lingering fuzzy picture of Drudge with timelines of how the United States had been attacked over night. First New York, then Chicago. *shudder* It was creepy!

Scary, especially coming from the east. I'm more worried about the power grid,which I've been hearing for years is vulnerable to attack. But it's a good day and I'm feeling better about Donald aggressively taking out dangerous people and situations. Still don't agree about Assad, however. As Ann Coulter says, he's the least bad of the Middle East bad guys.

Let's all have a nice day and leave it in the hands of the experts --and God

358 posted on 04/14/2017 7:50:11 AM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: johnk
Exactly, and it is happening here with more frequency than is being reported. Example

HOW COULD SHE? Michigan Doctor Performs Illegal Female Genital Mutilation On Girls Aged 6-8 https://t.co/S0vMZJVUfj #Feedly #ShariaLaw pic.twitter.com/QkVBsHCtA8— 🎙Wayne Dupree (@WayneDupreeShow) April 14, 2017

Media ignore 1 fact about U.S. doctor who maimed girls https://t.co/kaIguw8g6Z— All American Girl (@AIIAmericanGirI) April 14, 2017


359 posted on 04/14/2017 12:35:03 PM PDT by Syncro (Facts is facts)
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To: Jim 0216

“Mop & Bucket Brigade” stuff

Basic Mooselimb hellholes often need “janitorial services.”


360 posted on 04/14/2017 2:44:07 PM PDT by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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