Barksdale and Luke Air Force Bases lost at least half of their personnel to desertion in the early months of the Second Great Depression. They were some of the highest flying and farthest reaching of the Air Forces bases at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Barksdale and Luke Air Force Bases in Louisiana and Texas were part of Global Strike Command when the Second Great Depression came upon us all. The massive B-52 bombers trained and flew from Barksdale, while Luke AFB trained and flew[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A man was murdered and it enraged a nation. Men and women went out to protest with their families, decrying the foul action. And then the paramilitary forces that had long been pushing violent actions against those who unjustly held[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
First it was stay at home to be safe. Keep social distance. Stay out of large crowds. Shut down everything that isn’t essential. What many people didn’t realize is that EVERY business is essential to the people who own. And[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When Texas finally decided to go on the offensive and deal with the drug cartels on Mexican soil, Dyess Air Force Base joined them. Their B-1B Lancer bombers and C-130 Hercules transports quickly became the tip of the spear that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dyess Air Force Base helped fight the various drug cartels attacks that came into Texas during the Second Great Depression. The Hercules squadrons moved soldiers all around Texas and the surrounding States in quick reaction to strike after strike. They[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dyess Air Force Base’s C-130 Hercules transport aircraft were some of the oldest airframes in the Air Force inventory when the Second Great Depression hit. Most historians dismiss the idea that any of them were truly a century old, surmising[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dyess Air Force Base’s B-21 Raiders did not fare well during the Second Great Depression. The hi-tech bombers could not maintain flight potential without constant maintenance by the very best technicians on the planet. They depleted their spare parts inventories[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dyess Air Force Base suffered from the same desertions that most other federal military bases did when the federal government began to fracture around the new President. His final budget slashed the funding Dyess AFB received, and without pay many[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dyess Air Force Base was a pure Air Force Base when the Second Great Depression came upon us all. It had not been transferred to the Space Force as some bases had, and though some of its aircraft certainly did[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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