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Sunday, September 23, 2007
Missteps in the Bunker - Nukes Flown from Minot SD to Barksdale LA
Today's Washington Post had an article entitled "Missteps in the Bunker". Here is a link to the article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/22/AR2007092201447.html?hpid=topnews
This article covers the USAF mishap of flying 6 tactical nuclear warheads from Minot AFB, ND to Barksdale AFB, LA. Nukes have been flown all around the world for over 40 years.
This one scares the hell out of me. Not for the reasons that one might immediately think. But rather, the potential for degrading our strategic and tactical nuclear capability. This has the potential of allowing the Politically Correct (PC) politicians, PC Senior Grade and PC Flag Rank officers to jump into a knee-jerk reaction that will potentially reduce our true capability to nil. Those responsible must be able to maintain, store and transport these weapons to keep them in safe working order, and out of the hands of those that intend to do us great harm.
The vast majority of the Senior Officers today came up during the Clinton years when promotions favored the Politically Correct over the warrior. I personally prefer a savage warrior to a PC wust. I know that some of our warriors had rough edges, but that is part of the price to be paid for maintaining an armed force capable of defending our shores. I am afraid that they will change the program and make it impossible to maintain the weapons in our arsenal.
Over the years, there have been 20+ reported "Broken Arrows". See:
http://www.atomicarchive.com/Almanac/Brokenarrows_static.shtml
In all of that time, over-reaction has not rendered the program ineffective. Let's keep it that way. They don't need to change any of the regulations or procedures, simply adhere to the ones in force at this time. Swiftly punish those that failed, instead of going on a multimillion dollar witch hunt trying to prove someone in DOD or the current administration is to blame.
~g
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/22/AR2007092201447.html?hpid=topnews
This article covers the USAF mishap of flying 6 tactical nuclear warheads from Minot AFB, ND to Barksdale AFB, LA. Nukes have been flown all around the world for over 40 years.
This one scares the hell out of me. Not for the reasons that one might immediately think. But rather, the potential for degrading our strategic and tactical nuclear capability. This has the potential of allowing the Politically Correct (PC) politicians, PC Senior Grade and PC Flag Rank officers to jump into a knee-jerk reaction that will potentially reduce our true capability to nil. Those responsible must be able to maintain, store and transport these weapons to keep them in safe working order, and out of the hands of those that intend to do us great harm.
The vast majority of the Senior Officers today came up during the Clinton years when promotions favored the Politically Correct over the warrior. I personally prefer a savage warrior to a PC wust. I know that some of our warriors had rough edges, but that is part of the price to be paid for maintaining an armed force capable of defending our shores. I am afraid that they will change the program and make it impossible to maintain the weapons in our arsenal.
Over the years, there have been 20+ reported "Broken Arrows". See:
http://www.atomicarchive.com/Almanac/Brokenarrows_static.shtml
In all of that time, over-reaction has not rendered the program ineffective. Let's keep it that way. They don't need to change any of the regulations or procedures, simply adhere to the ones in force at this time. Swiftly punish those that failed, instead of going on a multimillion dollar witch hunt trying to prove someone in DOD or the current administration is to blame.
~g
Labels: Barksdale AFB, Broken Arrow, Minot AFB, Nuclear Weapons, Nukes, Politically Correct, USAF
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