Air Combat Command day off for "safety" 14 September
A B-52 on a carpet-bombing mission in Vietnam
why is my tin-foil hat buzzing...?
from the air force times...
On Sept. 14, flight lines will be very quiet at Air Combat Command bases.
The entire command — about 100,000 active-duty airmen — is standing down training flights and many other operations as part of a command-wide safety day.
Command boss Gen. Ronald Keys ordered the Sept. 14 safety stand-down in the wake of the Aug. 30 nuclear incident at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., in which six cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads were loaded onto a B-52H and then flown to Barksdale Air Force Base, La., without anyone on the ground or bomber realizing the nuclear weapons were on the plane. It was not until the B-52H was parked at Barksdale that ground crews discovered the cruise missiles were carrying real warheads.
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Just how serious Keys takes the lapse of regulations at Minot is reflected in the fact that the safety stand-down is the first command-wide safety day in recent memory.
(thanks to casey at open your mind's eye...)
Labels: Air Combat Command, Air Force, Air Force Times, B-52, nuclear weapons
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posted by profmarcus at
9/09/2007
