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…
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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…
We’ve built the greatest show on Earth. Now we’ve had our two weeks of staying at home to blunt the curve of this virus and keep our hospitals from being overloaded. We’ve had a couple more months of rather draconian[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Fort Polk helped to forge the West Louisiana we know today. When the Second Great Depression shattered New Orleans and the drug cartels ravaged Texas, Fort Polk aided those parishes that needed help and supported the National Guard forces that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Fort Polk was home to a joint service training center, two major infantry formations, and a major support hospital when the Second Great Depression struck. The desertions that became a daily occurrence in the federal military greatly reduced their manpower,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Fort Polk was one of the larger United States Army bases when the Second Great Depression began. Situated in the middle of western Louisiana, not far from the Old Texas border, it trained and sustained over ten thousand soldiers, though[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…