It was a B-52 from Minot that flew the nuclear-armed cruise missiles down to Barksdale AFB a few years ago.
It was a B-52 from Minot that flew the nuclear-armed cruise missiles down to Barksdale AFB a few years ago.
"In a nut shell, if it ever goes to Civil War, I'm afraid I'll be in the middle 70%, shooting at both sides" — 26 Inf
"We have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right, and we have to start doing something about them." — CNN's Don Lemon 10/30/18
No, no dropped/jettisoned weapons in this incident.
Found it, so this is what you were talking about. A Bent Spear incident.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_U...apons_incident
The incident I was thinking about was one of the B-52 crashes that happened in 1961 where the weapon has never been recovered.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/17483...ns-us-has-lost
"In a nut shell, if it ever goes to Civil War, I'm afraid I'll be in the middle 70%, shooting at both sides" — 26 Inf
"We have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right, and we have to start doing something about them." — CNN's Don Lemon 10/30/18
One of the [recurring] problems is that the "burn them all" philosophy worked fine when there were 600,000+ people. Ruining the careers of 10-20 at a time was no big deal when you had ready replacement.
The issue facing the Air Force, at all unit and not just this one, is that everyone is already at 40-60% of the manning they should have. Four years ago, Malmstrom AFB suspended a little less than half of their ICBM crew force (200ish total, 90 suspended) to investigate a cheating scandal (that involved 5 people). There is no way to make up that gap. The alerts still have to happen, 2 officers per launch center, 15 launch centers) and now there are even less people to do them with. Group punishment had its place in SAC, but it starts to lose its effectiveness when the only way to make up for it and still meet mission objectives is to take even more shortcuts.
Last edited by BrigandTwoFour; 05-18-18 at 19:54.
I didn't say I agreed with "group punishment" but it is what it is. That's how .mil plays it. Shit rolls downhill but also rolls uphill too.
Given the general unaccountability in our society today the military goes 180 degrees the opposite, but it always has crushed folks up or down the problem-chain. Just the way it is and has been.
Last edited by ABNAK; 05-18-18 at 20:55.
11C2P '83-'87
Airborne Infantry
F**k China!
Yeah, my first thought was "Somebody's going to smoke a turd over this."
I can remember spending three days dragging a river looking for a missing M-16A2. The poor kid that lost it damn near committed ritual seppuku when we could not find it.
And that was not a belt-fed or a can of HEDP.
Yep. A big fat moist juicy turd.....
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