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2004-01-13 Home Front

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Posted by Steve 2004-01-13 1:29:57 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 how far is that in flying hrs to these places? Does 2.5-3.5 hrs sound right?

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2004-1-13 1:41:12 PM|| 2004-1-13 1:41:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Bitch to get to.

My husband dove Truk this past summer.

They do need the money. I'd prefer him to go back there than the Philippines, which they're discussing now.

Posted by Anonymous2U 2004-1-13 1:52:11 PM|| 2004-1-13 1:52:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Has anyone forwarded this to the NKors and SKors? I don't think our troops in Korea would mind terribly if they were stationed somewhere warmer.

Posted by Desert Blondie 2004-1-13 1:53:02 PM|| 2004-1-13 1:53:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Is it still infested with those god-awful tree snakes ?

Posted by Anonymous 2004-1-13 1:58:03 PM|| 2004-1-13 1:58:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 YS - B-2 and B-1 speeds are listed as "high sub-sonic", that's around 500 mph, so 3 hours is about right. B-2 has a un-refueled range of 6,000 miles, so that's a piece of cake.

Anon - Yes on the snakes, they've pretty much cleaned out all the birds.

Posted by Steve 2004-1-13 2:08:09 PM|| 2004-1-13 2:08:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I agree 100% with this idea. Pull the troops out of South Korea and Okinawa and build up Guam as the forward positioned base.

Posted by ruprecht 2004-1-13 3:14:01 PM|| 2004-1-13 3:14:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Good for tankers maybe... but fighers? Jeez that's a big ass ocean.

Posted by Shipman 2004-1-13 5:47:06 PM|| 2004-1-13 5:47:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I would imagine the thinking behind basing a fighter wing there would be

1)It's a couple thousand miles closer than being based at Nellis,Mountain Home,Hill,etc.That's several dozen aerial refuelings that don't have to be made,as well as time saved getting you close to active theatre.

2)You don't have to worry about increasingly scarce a/c being caught on ground by NK sudden attack.

3)You can dogfight to your hearts content w/out noise restrictions or intruding civil a/c.

Posted by Stephen 2004-1-13 6:45:05 PM|| 2004-1-13 6:45:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Problem is, Guam's a small place. We need to spread out. Guam has about as much as it can hold with one airbase, a naval port, and a small army contingent. We do have other options in the Pacific, and I thing we should use them. Truk, Palau, Micronesia, etc., are all former Trust Territory of the Pacific territories, currently under US protection. I don't think basing a wing or two of US fighters there would upset them terribly, especially with the additional hard currency it would provide. The problem is, these places are in a tropical climate, and that's not good for airframes, personal belongings, and most other manufactured things. That said, I would LOVE to see the US presence return to the Philippines, and for the US and Australia to set up a joint operating force in the western end of a liberated, democratic New Guinea. The other options would be "liberating" New Caledonia and French Polynesia from the French in retaliation for supporting Iraq against the United States. Of course, that might upset the French enough they might even declare an embargo against the US, or, even worse, keep forcing the idiotic pro-French ~~slave document~~"constitution" onto the members of the European Union. They may also try to bring charges against the United States in that new International Court of theirs, run by their Belgian lapdogs. ~~One good Tomahawk would end that threat.~~

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-1-13 7:00:09 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-1-13 7:00:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 That said, I would LOVE to see the US presence return to the Philippines,

Hell, OP wants to see another landing on Leyte. :>

Posted by Mr..V. Braun 2004-1-13 7:34:18 PM|| 2004-1-13 7:34:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Was it Guam where God's own bomber got the BUFF monicker?

Posted by Shipman 2004-1-13 8:38:52 PM|| 2004-1-13 8:38:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Old Patriot, I could be wrong but I think the Micronesia Trust Territory has gone its own way.

Posted by ruprecht 2004-1-13 10:04:24 PM|| 2004-1-13 10:04:24 PM|| Front Page Top

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