B52’s are used too attack foreign navies as well as land based targets as you well know. The AC based at Anderson and other Pacific, Indian Ocean and Atlantic bases such as Diego Garcia do this all the time too update data bases and make dry runs against such targets.
BTW did ya hear that the Minot AFB guys failed their ORI (Operational Readiness Inspection) ?? Something really bad going on at that base ......flush all the personnel to other bases (or civilian life) and RIF the command elements.
No excuses.....
Was Minot the base that inadvertently dispatched the BUF with nuke-armed cruise missiles a year or so ago? If so, is this ORI failure above and beyond that?
As a side note, I had a roommate in college who got stationed at Minot and was never heard from again.
Wasn’t Minot the origin base of the infamous missing cruise missiles?