[MilCom] AF realigns B-1, LRS-B under Air Force Global Strike Command

[Ron]

On 4/20/2015 3:55 PM, Jack L. Metcalfe wrote:
> Jack Nesmith wrote:
>> http://www.acc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123445666&source=GovD
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> I could see this coming six years ago.  Let's see, the USAF does away 
> with SAC in 1992, then  17 years later they decide they again need a 
> single force structure for the nuclear capable aircraft & missiles, so 
> they reinvent SAC as the Global Strike Command in 2009.  They also, 
> for the most part, mothballed Cheyenne Mountain a few years ago & now 
> decide to spend nearly a billion dollars to reactivate it.  To 
> paraphrase the late Senator Everett Dirksen, "abillion here, a billion 
> there & pretty soon, you're talking real money."
>
> Good find, Jack.
The big thing that surprises me is that it's happening under this 
administration.