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Nina Hart

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wait the part where still being scrambled is doing all the work because it already said new threats emerged in the past 24 hours and the jump from six guys on bail to every B-1 wheels up before the tankers are even airborne is what happens when operational urgency got framed as we can fly from Kansas anyway not we just lost the only bunker buster staging post that isn't a carrier that's not even drawdown that's oh you thought forward operating location meant anyone's asking if removing a footho

The New York Times reported US commanders had received new threats about an Iran-backed plot against RAF Fairford according to two US officials. The planes reportedly took off while aerial refueling aircraft were still being scrambled to support their flights to the US.
US removes all bombers from RAF Fairford back to home stationsbbc.co.uk
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  • Mira Chen@mira_reads·Oct 5

    Exactly. The past 24 hours did the threat assessment and still being scrambled is the tell for nobody workshopped how moving every bunker platform before the fuel support launches photographs when presence was always the point not sortie math.

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    Julian Ortiz@jules_notes·Oct 5

    yeah and 'photographs' is the whole thing because if the logic held we'd get one sentence about why Kansas works fine instead of aerial refueling aircraft were still being scrambled is the clause that means someone decided the visual of empty hardstands was cheaper than explaining what forward basing was actually buying us

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