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CENTCOM announces Air Force readiness exercise amid growing Iran tensions
The Jerusalem Post ^ | January 27, 2026 at 1:14 PM EST | YONAH, JEREMY BOB

Posted on 01/27/2026 1:57:16 PM PST by BeauBo

Although CENTCOM said that the "exercise is designed to enhance asset and personnel dispersal capability," military parties have used such drills in the past as cover for launching a surprise attack...

...During the (multi-day) training event, CENTCOM said that US forces "will deploy teams to multiple contingency locations and validate rapid set-up, launch and recovery procedures with small, efficient support packages. AFCENT will conduct all activities with host-nation approval and in close coordination with civil and military aviation authorities, emphasizing safety, precision and respect for sovereignty."

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Iran; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: irgc; middleeast

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Heightened readiness. Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group on Station.
1 posted on 01/27/2026 1:57:16 PM PST by BeauBo
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To: BeauBo

Trump better be focused on the home front than worrying about Iran...


2 posted on 01/27/2026 1:58:23 PM PST by dpetty121263
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To: dpetty121263

You ought to spend your time taking care of your chickens instead of giving unsolicited advise to the CIC..


3 posted on 01/27/2026 2:01:59 PM PST by Just mythoughts (Matthew 24:32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, .........)
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To: Just mythoughts

Well the chickens are fine yet the nation is being bullied by Tampon Timmmy and his gang of Communists...


4 posted on 01/27/2026 2:06:04 PM PST by dpetty121263
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To: Gen.Blather

“many or even most military planes are still parked in the open. We are hugely vulnerable to drones”

This was tested to some degree last Summer when the Iranian nuclear program was struck, but I believe that a lot more aircraft are on the ground in the region this time, than took part in that last Operation in Iran.


6 posted on 01/27/2026 2:15:41 PM PST by BeauBo
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To: dpetty121263
Well the chickens are fine yet the nation is being bullied by Tampon Timmmy and his gang of Communists...

Glad to read the Tysons will stay in business ... Tampon Tim is the one that gave in ... because Tampon Tim is about to have to explain the billions he helped steal .. But the demonic media .. Christ told US the devil is allow the power of the 'air' and we see it in real time day in and day out ...

Right here there are idiots making excuses for the mentally ill woman using her car as a weapon was 'justified'... and the demonic nurse was exercising his 2am rights when the 'nurse' was clearly breaking MN law leaving his CC permit and ID required to carry a weapon away from his person...

NOW you appear to present yourself as if you walk on the proverbial water .. and based upon your endless smoke demonstrate idiocy.. President Trump does not need a chicken farmer for the Tysons to give him advice.

Do you have illegals tending your chickens?????

7 posted on 01/27/2026 2:15:57 PM PST by Just mythoughts (Matthew 24:32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, .........)
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To: BeauBo

Al Jazeera Reports today (27 Jan 2026):

“Iran’s currency has dropped to ⁠a record (low) ‍1,500,000 rials to ‍the US ⁠dollar, according to several Iranian ​currency ‌tracking websites, weeks after protests ‌sparked by ‌the ⁠rial’s dwindling value rocked ‌the country.”


8 posted on 01/27/2026 2:18:00 PM PST by BeauBo
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To: dpetty121263

You’re lucky Trump is too moral to take over the whole world.


9 posted on 01/27/2026 2:22:57 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: dpetty121263

He can do both, it’s long past time to cut the head off the snake.


10 posted on 01/27/2026 2:33:28 PM PST by saturn
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Trump better be focused on the home front than worrying about Iran...

I'm sure President Trump has been waiting for your advice before doing anything....

11 posted on 01/27/2026 2:37:51 PM PST by norcal joe
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To: dpetty121263
bullied

You are a homo.

12 posted on 01/27/2026 2:42:12 PM PST by xone ( )
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To: dpetty121263

Trump can bounce a quarter on your pointy head and tap dance at the same time.🤡


13 posted on 01/27/2026 2:49:40 PM PST by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal !)
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To: dpetty121263

A city with a population of 2/3rds of Detroit or Memphis has lost its mind.
Rest of the country. Doing just fine.
Your side is losing.

Trump 👍
Noem🔥
ICE 🤟
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸


14 posted on 01/27/2026 2:52:08 PM PST by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal !)
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To: Gen.Blather

“ What concerns me”

Stopped reading there.🤪


15 posted on 01/27/2026 2:54:15 PM PST by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal !)
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To: Gen.Blather

“I’d hate to lose planes costing hundreds of millions of dollars . . .”

It is more than just dollars. Military planes can’t be replaced by visiting Home Depot.

B-52s can’t be replaced ever. F-35s can be replaced - in five or ten years.

I share your concerns that drones could be used to hit equipment on “safe” U.S. bases.


16 posted on 01/27/2026 3:34:09 PM PST by jeffersondem
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To: jeffersondem
"I share your concerns that drones could be used to hit equipment on “safe” U.S. bases."

Don't worry that's prohibited. They even posted signs.


17 posted on 01/27/2026 3:42:56 PM PST by Justa (Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people....)
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To: jeffersondem

“F-35s can be replaced - in five or ten years.”

I spent 33 years as an engineer working on various line replaceable unit production programs, at various times for all of the various services. An LRU is usually a box that can be replaced on the line. Even with a full-up and running line it took months to years to produce a unit. If you suddenly had to surge production, it usually simply wasn’t possible. Even if my company had surge capacity, usually, the subcomponent suppliers either didn’t have the capacity or were otherwise fully engaged on other programs. After we won the cold war politicians were so eager to use the peace dividend to enhance their other spending programs that almost all the spare capacity was closed down and sold off. Often times we’d go back to buy something we suddenly needed only to find the company that built it had gone out of business with their tooling long ago scrapped. Several years ago, I read that it took five years to produce an F-15 after the first two parts were assembled. This was when the production line was at its optimum. If we get into a war clueless politicians assume we could just turn on the tap and produce whatever we want in whatever quantities. Not even close. If a war starts, we’re stuck with whatever is left over after the first strike.


18 posted on 01/27/2026 3:47:42 PM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud. Sorry. )
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To: All

A brief report card of the rulers of Iran:
- Took US diplomats hostage
- Suicide bombed US Marine barracks in Beirut
- Suicide bombed USS Cole
- Suicide bombed Khobar towers, which housed US military
- Killed scores of US servicemen in Iraq
- Funded Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, and Hashd-Al Shaabi
- Bombed the Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires
- Have sent assassins all over the world, tasked with killing Jews, dissidents, and Americans
- Funded “cultural centers”, professional protesters, lobbyists, media, politicians and college professors all over the Western World

Too many presidents kicked the can down the road, or even funded them (”ahem - Obama”) making the rulers of Iran stronger by the year.

This will be painful. But it needs to be done. They are weaker now than they have ever been. Rip off the band aid, 47. It will hurt a little, but the world will be a far better place


19 posted on 01/27/2026 4:42:33 PM PST by Time_Has_Come (I'm a proud Islamophobe, and for very good reason.)
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To: norcal joe

So how many convictions has the Trump Admin DOJ made? I will make it easy for you in the last 30 days...


20 posted on 01/27/2026 4:42:37 PM PST by dpetty121263
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