Actually I was born before they were born.
I also worked on them when they had miniature vacuum tubes then transistors and then Integrated Circuits and signal processors then Infrared Video and optical Video.
They have been rebuilt from Radome to mini-gun many times.
Unfortunately that is what you do when you have a do nothing congress for years and metro sexual illegal as president for 8 years.
The B-52s are good to go.
Somehow I’m confident just knowing that men like you kept these massive airplanes up-to-date and mission ready. Years ago, I worked at the end of a Marine base. Anyone who’s worked around these airfields must have the same great memories. The transports lumbered along almost to the end of the runway as if they’d never get off the ground, sucking the pressure out of the air, roaring so loud everyone stopped talking mid-sentence til the big birds lifted off and flew away.