re: #57 FormerDirtDart

A little thread on realities of EXCLUSIVE: US Preparing to Put Nuclear Bombers Back on 24-Hour Alert

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On a side note.
I used to work out of the old alert building down at the ‘christmas tree” on Little Rock Air Force Base.

The story does put Trump’s Executive Order allowing the involuntary callback of 1000 pilots in an interesting light.

Still 1000 pilots would require all the planes, navigators / ecm officers, ground support maintenance and aerial refueling tankers & crews needed to keep them flying. This whole thing feels like when Trump told the Navy they were going retrofit to steam catapults on the new carriers just because he told them to. He’s got this weird fixation on the idea that old tech is better, it’s conservatism at its most literalistic and backwards looking.