About an hour from where Belle's daughter lives in Missouri is a little town called Knob Noster. The home of Whiteman AFB, it must be a great place to live. And a poor place to get TDY. I don't know how Air Force bomber crews handle it. For example.
Yesterday, these fools loaded up, flew to Iran, bombed the crap out of it. Then turned around a flew home. If it was me, an old cavalry trooper, I would have been tempted to have engine trouble somewhere over... I dunno... Italy. Maybe found a place to eat pasta.
Not these crews. No, hell no. They flew back to Knob Noster. I've been to Knob Noster, and there isn't much to recommend it. Nice Base Exchange, small commissary. I believe I would have stopped in Italy, or Spain maybe. Or, the Azores? I hear it's nice in the Azores. Not these crews, we're going to Knob Noster.
Well done, Air Force.
Kudos also to the submariners who showed then how to launch a targeted missile strike. Well done!
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Never been to Knob Noster, but I've been to Blytheville, Arkansas and I imagine the environs are similar. With Blytheville, however, there seemed to be the added feature of the locals hating the military.
I hate war. That is why I support our decision to stop the Iranians from being able to obliterate our only strong democratic ally in the middle east.
And you are right, great job, military including Pete Hegseth. Apparently they carried this whole mission out with the greatest of deception and secrecy in the whole Dept. of Defense.
I read somewhere they were airborne for 37 hours. Hopefully there was room and crew size to move around a bit. 10 plus hour in an F-4 was pre “D” Hell on landing at Hickam from Moody.
Well done Guys!
juvat
Agreed!
Hubby and I were in Italy and second night having dinner we both ordered pasta dishes. My pasta was just chewy and hubby's was so hard that he sent it back. In my world pasta is not suppose to crunch in your mouth.
On Voyager's (the first round the world unrefueled) flight, the two-person crew spent a week in a cramped noisy cockpit and sleeping area at 100 something miles an hour listening to a single piston engine (a second was used only for takeoff and landing) with a view of lots of water below.
it even has a toilet
https://rumble.com/v6v68xb-of-course-the-b-2-has-a-toilet-.-.-.-and-more.html
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