#1
Doesn't seem like the best location for an AF base in the first place. And why would aircraft have been left there - plenty of notice a major storm was heading right at it - we always moved our offshore helicopter fleet out of the way of storms.
#5
Someone general officers need to be fired if operational aircraft were lost.
BTW, welcome to the NIMBY state. We have Holloman and Cannon AFB facilities available in New Mexico. They also just stood down the NMNG F16 wing at Kirtland AFB. One is qualified for supersonic training. No major environmental threats to either.
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Best Location? How many days a year is that spot rated for "Unrestricted Flying Days"? How close to transportation routes/population centers to allow it to be convenient to operate?
In Central Oklahoma the number, IIRC, of days per year was 360+ and the services clustered a series of training installations around Oklahoma City in World War 2 -- Despite the ever present Severe Tornado Threat™!
#8
What *boggles* my mind is the fact that a F-22 could be damage in its hangar -- Why wasn't some senior USAF NCO directed to personally improvise a "defense in place" and allowed to scavenge whatever it takes to wrap each non-flying bird in enough plywood, sandbags and bubble wrap to survive a nuclear blast?
#9
I take it the base doesn't have any hardened hangers at all? I would think that any air force base should at least be prepared to fulfill it's actual purpose in war time, ie having defenses in place to protect it and static defenses against air or arty threats.
#10
Considering all the agony the military went through in the BRAC process a few years ago, you would think that someone would have asked about hurricane/tornado/earthquake exposure in deciding which bases to close. I really want to hear the explanation behind this catastrophe.
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Before Andrew the only planes left were hanger queens. We're talking commerical and military.Anything that could fly was moved elsewhere, If air worthy planes where indeed left behind somebody's head should roll. It is not like the panhandle doesn't get hurricanes.
Homestead AFB was written of after Andrew , IIRC Senator Hollingsworth determined that the pentagon better not close bases in SC that where on the chopping block when they could replace the need to rebuild Homestead. The only irreplacable bit of aviation history destroyed was a Snark missile that was a static Welcome to Homestead display. When the AF historians arrived to see if they could salvage it for restoration it had already been bulldozed into a tidy pile of debris.
[PJ - Spengler] Germany's leading right-of-center daily Die Welt this morning reveals that Jamal Khashoggi was not a journalist, but a high-level operative for the Saudi intelligence service, an intimate of Osama bin Laden, and the nephew of the shadiest of all Arab arms dealers, the infamous Adnan Khashoggi. John Bradley reported last week in the Spectator that Khashoggi, who allegedly met a grisly end in a Saudi consulate in Istanbul, was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist organization that among other things wants to replace the Saudi monarchy with a modern Islamist totalitarian state.
So much for the whining in the Establishment media about freedom of the press and protection of the rights of journalists. The presumed-dead Khashoggi was a top-level spook who swore fealty to some of the Arab world's nastiest elements, and who played a high-stakes game in Saudi spookdom. We don't know why he disappeared, but we know what we don't know.
Among other things, we know that Khashoggi was bitterly opposed to the new Saudi government's rapprochement with the state of Israel. As a Muslim Brotherhood member, he backed Palestinian intransigence.
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#1
My understanding is that Mexican journalists get whacked whenever they discover facts that are inconvenient to the ruling class. In fact, journalism is an extremely dicey business in all kinds of countries. Our media never says boo about it. But let one WAPO stringer get whacked by the Soddies and all of sudden it's a real big deal. Could it be this whole kerfuffle is merely a case of WAPO attempting to embarrass Trump?
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Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying it's OK to whack journalists. I'm just saying that Soddy Arabia is not the only country in the world where there is no freedom of the press. Just think what might happen to a Chinese reporter if he wrote anything the least bit embarrassing to Xi Jinping...not to mention the head of Interpol.
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If Trump actually leans on the Kingdom he will have gone where few recent presidents dared go before. Such actions will have been made possible by the energy cushion provided by fracking. http://t.co/H6023ClNtc
Wretchard said this in another Tweet: "There are no good guys in Saudi Arabia, just bad guys and worse guys. This, after all, is a country ruled by a family, and its family politics often recall Game of Thrones."
#2
We might be energy independent, but *sigh* our worthless "allies" in Europe sure aren't. They need Middle East oil, and we will go to war on their behalf to secure it for them.
All the while they protest and demand we baby-killing monsters go home. Ungrateful jerks.
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#3
Do you mean "where many fear to tread" or "where few are willing to tread"?
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