I don’t think we actually need a special plane to remove 50 B61 nukes. We just need to write a procedure to do it on whatever plane we are using. Almost any decent cargo plan can lift that load.
Special crews? That should not be hard to get there or to work around. We cannot let bureaucratic inertia put nuclear weapons at risk. We’re not asking them to disassemble the nukes, just to strap “up to 50” nukes in place aboard an airplane or two.
And we are the USA. We do not need Turkey’s permission to remove weapons that they have implicitly threatened.
Special plane and the NEST crews are absolutely needed - moving nukes is not like moving regular bombs - how would ordinary people know if the nukes are still stable? or leaking radiation and what to do about that. All personnel involved in any sort of nuke operations are specially trained.
Regardless of the bravado (... we are the USA. We do not need Turkey’s permission), we actually do need permission. It has been that way since we established bases there in the 50s - when I was there we had some specialized antennas but could not use them as the Turks had not been informed - we were told any attempt to mount them would result in Turkish artillery shelling and front line troops storming the base. That has not changed.
In fact, during the revolt a few years back their military ringed the air base because they were sure some people on it were aiding the rebels. We narrowly voided disaster then. This is a far more fragile situation.