{"id":14021,"date":"2016-04-10T23:07:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T23:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14021"},"modified":"2016-04-10T23:09:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T23:09:38","slug":"rolling-thunder-2-0-perhaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14021","title":{"rendered":"‘Rolling Thunder 2.0’ … perhaps?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Bring on the B-52s.<\/p>\n

The Pentagon has deployed an unspecified number of the Cold War-era strategic bombers to Qatar to take part in the fight against the Islamic State.<\/p>\n

The brass <\/a>says the aircraft bring “multi-platform” forms of firepower to rein down on the terrorists. The Air Force describes the weaponry as precise and finely tuned to hit military targets.<\/p>\n

Good to hear!<\/p>\n

The B-52 remains one of the U.S. Air Force’s most potent weapons. It went into operation in the 1950s and has gone through several upgrades over the decades.<\/p>\n

It poured thousands of tons of ordnance on North Vietnamese and Viet Cong targets during the Vietnam War. The planes played a key role in softening up Iraqi troop positions during the Persian Gulf War in 1990-91.<\/p>\n

Now the Islamic State is about to feel the wrath of a weapon that our nation’s enemies always have feared on the battlefield.<\/p>\n

My very first visual sight of the Vietnam War occurred as I peered out the window of a jetliner en route to Bien Hoa, South Vietnam in the spring of 1969. I looked down and saw a flight of the big birds flying out over the ocean after, I presume, completing a bombing run over South Vietnam.<\/p>\n

Once I settled in at our Army aviation base near Da Nang, I could hear the thunder<\/em> to our west as the planes fulfilled their mission. It was music to our ears, but it meant something quite different to those on the receiving end.<\/p>\n

I welcome the news of the B-52 coming back into active wartime duty. I’m\u00a0quite certain\u00a0the terrorists who are about to find themselves on the receiving end of some serious pain will not.<\/p>\n

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