Our new President was speaking about not apologizing for our way of life. Just then, the sleek grey jet flew over me. I said to myself, “wow.” It was quite a moment, which I hope was shared by other drivers headed East or West, listening to the speech and watching the flight of such a symbol of our power. Hollywood couldn’t have done it any better.
I went to the official site of the US Air Force. This is what they wrote:
01/23/2009 - SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFNS) -- Coalition airpower integrated with coalition ground forces in Iraq and International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan during operations Jan. 22, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here. In Afghanistan, an Air Force B-1B Lancer destroyed a building in an anti-Afghan compound with a guided bomb unit-38. Enemy personnel were firing small arms and rocket-propelled grenades at coalition forces from a fighting position inside the building.
Dyess is home of the 7th Bomb Wing, which is the “premier” operational B1B Lancer unit in the US Air Force. You can learn more by going here: http://www.dyess.af.mil/ and http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123132458
The photo credit is: : www.boeing.com/history/bna/b1b.htm
