In my day:
Posted on 05/18/2016 7:48:34 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
The U.S. Air Force said Thursday a B-52 crashed on Guam shortly after takeoff, but all seven crew members made it out safely. No injuries were reported.
The plane aborted on takeoff and caught fire at about 8:30 a.m., Pacific Air Forces public affairs said in an email. It crashed on the flight line of the base.
The bomber was deployed to Guam from Minot, North Dakota, as part of the military's continuous bomber presence in the Pacific, The Air Force said. The crew members are with the 69th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron and were performing a routine training mission, it said.
The incident is under investigation. Officials were taking steps to mitigate possible unspecified environmental effects, the Air Force said. The Air Force has been rotating B-1, B-2 and B-52 bombers through Guam since 2004 to boost the U.S. security presence in the Asia-Pacific region.
A B-52 crashed off Guam in 2008, killing all six crew members on board. That plane had been flying around the island as part of Guam Liberation Day celebrations, marking the day when the U.S. military arrived to retake control of the island from Japan during World War II. The B-52 had been scheduled to conduct a flyover in a parade.
Guam is a U.S. territory 3,700 miles southwest of Hawaii.
Friend, your hostility is unbecoming.
Are you reporting yourself?
Because you should, dude.
That’s a joke, right?
Two Russian bombers circled Guam on nov. 25, 2015, that’s less than 6 months ago. That’s the fourth time in three years now. I would say that’s pertinent to any discussion about Guam and our planes there, especially our bombers. I was given a condescending reply and responded bluntly FRiend, hardly hostile.
Yup. Pretty bad idea especially at low altitude.
In my day:
How someone feels about fraud says a lot about them.
Beat me to it. With no injuries (amazing) my fear is that the island would tip over.
You obviously “aint from around here” .
I smell catnip....
ROTFLMAO!
You continue to openly display your total ignorance of military affairs.
Fraud? How I feel? Says something about me? Your post is fraught with so many assumptions I don’t know how to respond. I don’t know you. You don’t know me. Is this a YouTube forum? No. This is the premiere conservative political forum. But hey. Have it your way. Mr. Pooper head. See I can do YouTube style chat as well as you!
Thanks.
Chill. You are picking at nits
Unless you were an actual pilot of a B-52 you can ditch the condescending attitude right now. Unless you spent 22 years in the Air Force I guarantee I’ve spent more time then you in a hangar, most of them Air Force. I was in the Second Marine Air Wing, Intruder squadron VMAT (AW)-202, phantom squadrons VMFAT-201, VMFAT-101. I also supported various projects (mostly design) for the KC-10, KC-135, C-130, C-17, and B-2 at Wright Patterson AFB for 18 years. The fact we have a strategic Island that sits out in the middle of nowhere and you dismiss Russian first strike bombers practice targeting shows you in fact are the one ignorant of military affairs.
You are pretty combative
And that wasn't combative of you? Lol.
You're a wannabe mind rapist who thinks you're invisible - just another liberal pretending to be a conservative, and shocked when you're caught because you already know you're superior to everyone.
Grow up - you're really not all that. And your denial is tedious.
You really are a disappointment. I have no idea who you are talking to. Are you a person or a random word generator?
Glad everyone got out OK. Guam sure doesn’t need anymore ghosts like “Screaming Charlie” or the headless major. Never could get an answer to the question that if we ever saw the headless major, did we need to salute him since he wasn’t wearing a cover?
A "disappointment"? Lol.
Good.
At least I don't have to ask what you are - it's very clear.
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