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Southeast Asia
Task Force of B-52s Deploy To Andersen
2021-04-22
[AirForceMag] Four B-52s deployed to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, on April 17 in the latest Pacific bomber task force mission.

The B-52s, from the 2nd Bomb Wing at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., will train with joint services and allied nations during the deployment, according to a Pacific Air Forces release.

"The Air Force is currently working in a complex, dynamic, and sometimes volatile global security environment," 2nd Bomb Wing Commander Col. Mark Dmytryszyn said in the release. "It is our charge to regularly conduct these joint and combined security cooperation engagements across different geographic combatant commands and their areas of operation."

The deployment comes on the one-year anniversary of the Air Force ending the Continuous Bomber Presence at Guam. For 16 straight years, the Air Force kept bombers based at Andersen as a deterrent. Since then, the Air Force has sent smaller "bomber task force" rotations, which include a few bombers at a time, on a more unpredictable basis.

B-52s and B-1s have rotated through the base as part of BTFs.

"These BTF missions demonstrate the strategic credibility and tactical flexibility of our forces to address today’s matters," Dmytryszyn said in the release. "As an aircraft capable of employing with a wide variety of nuclear and conventional weapons, delivered across a continent-spanning range, employing global joint all-domain command and control systems, the B-52 remains a universally-recognized symbol of America’s assurances to our allies, our partners, and the world."
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Posted by:Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589

#8  ^ Ed, LOL. I hadn't thought of that. Great visit if you're ever in Boston.
Posted by: Matt   2021-04-22 18:21  

#7  Matt, it's worse than you realize.
The USS Constitution is the only commisioned vessel that the Navy has that's sunk an enemy ship.
Posted by: ed in texas   2021-04-22 17:22  

#6  ^First you break the enemy, then you occupy the territory. And, nowadays it's not about taking their territory anyways - it's to stop them from taking ours.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-04-22 16:02  

#5   ... #4 The future of warfare is from space.
why go to war if territory is not involved? How do you occupy territory without grunts?
Posted by: irish rage boy   2021-04-22 15:41  

#4  The future of warfare is from space.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589   2021-04-22 14:02  

#3  ^ #2 Mike, definitely the most frightening war machine ever made. But it frightens me too, because it means that our procurement system is so throughly screwed that we're flying planes older than me. I'm mainly thinking about the Navy surface fleet -- at the rate they're going the USS Constitution will be the most lethal surface combatant we have. I hope I'm wrong.
Posted by: Matt   2021-04-22 13:49  

#2  ...Miss Buffy has a marvelous faculty for focusing one's mind...

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2021-04-22 06:06  

#1  I wonder what they are carrying these days, cruise missiles , glide bombs , anti-aircraft , or FBI agents greased in pig fat.
Posted by: Phinetch Wherese4624   2021-04-22 00:46  

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