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Michael W. Wynne

"more imaginative things" for our flyboys

by: hannah

Thu Apr 10, 2008 at 06:10:11 AM EDT

Somehow I think when I post diaries here they ought to be connected to New Hampshire.  So, in response to a question the other day about why I focus on the Air Force, let me explain why I pay attention to what's going on up in the air.

When we lived in NH year-round back in the '70s, Pease was still a SAC base, the "Peace is our Profession" guys who took a mushroom cloud with wings as an icon of their mission.  Once a year we took our kids to the open house at the base so they could get a closer look at the planes that seemed to consider our fields as the landmark where they turned for their practice landings, especially on the weekends.

Then the SAC base was closed down as part of the BRAC process--the same deliberations which slated the closing of missile bases in Western Europe and the relocation of their personnel to the Middle East.

Besides, it's the Air Force that's inflicting most of the damage on Iraq.  That's why I put together the following (with links).

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