Fear not, FlyVet! The democRATS have been trying to kill the BUFF for 50 years! They lost!
The 'Old Dog' is gonna rain some HELL, yet again! It always amazes me that the democRATS never understand.
Maybe they just hate America....FRegards
I knew that the B52 H-models were the only ones still in service, but thought it might have been from an older photo. When I put aside my old Army greens for USAF blue, my first squadron commander was a former USAF BUF enlisted crewdog, who had been the tailgunner in a D-model, among his other perversions. Having shanghaied me for training commo procedures to all the rocket scientists in the squadron, I eventually found myself signing for things [including some 4 million dollars of radios] that really required an officer's accountability and was armtwisted into taking a butterbar, thogh it looks likely that the recent situation may see me back in a green suit again.
But at one point when tasked with DEA support and we were offered the opportunity to draw upon stored USAF aircraft assets at the Davis-Monthan boneyard [in which we were expected to ask for O2s or Beavers] I suggested to The Boss that we request a 3-ship flight of B52s for our counternarcotics support program, since DEA was funding fuel and other expenses from their budget. We passed the idea on to both our DEA liason, who thought the idea funny as all get out and passed it on to his higher, and to our own wing weenies, who did not. Sorry, no arclights on suspected crackhouses. But the idea had possibilities, and the public relations aspect alone would have made the effort worthwhile.
You know that there are 4th-generation crewdogs in those H- model birds now?
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