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| Axis of Evil |
| Team erects B-2 shelters at deployed location |
| 2003-01-10 |
| Twenty members of the 49th Materiel Maintenance Squadron here spent more than 70 days at a deployed location working 12-hour shifts to erect portable shelters for B-2 Spirit bombers. Probably Diego Garcia, right? Moving the B-2s to forward locations will significantly shorten combat missions, which have been as long as 44 hours from Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo. The Axis of Evil lives far from Mo... "We hand-picked a team with a core of troops who had experience in B-2 shelter construction during the test and evaluation phase. Their experience along with a lot of ingenuity and hard work paid off as they finished the two shelters about three weeks ahead of the original schedule despite a number of modifications required in the field." ...but it's probably a lot closer to the 'deployed location' |
| Posted by:JAB |
| #3 Dude-- Of course it is air conditioned. We are talking about the USAF here. It probably has cable too. |
| Posted by: Penguin 2003-01-11 02:30:18 |
| #2 Check out the details on this shelter at http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/systems/xldahs.htm It is a remarkable portable structure! Lots of room and air-conditioned to boot. There is also a link to some pictures of the structure on the page. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-01-10 18:55:45 |
| #1 The B-2 has one heck of a logistical tail. You can't send them out only half-buttered up. Let's hope the mighty USAF knows what it's doing... |
| Posted by: Anna 2003-01-10 18:45:19 |