Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: jwm@wdl76.wdl.fac.com (Jon W Meyer) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: OP. DESERT SHIELD Message-ID: <1990Nov21.220257.18993@cbnews.att.com> Date: 21 Nov 90 22:02:57 GMT References: <1990Nov20.020853.26140@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: LORAL Western Development Labs Lines: 27 Approved: military@att.att.com From: jwm@wdl76.wdl.fac.com (Jon W Meyer) shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) writes: >From: Mary Shafer >Somebody wrote: > You don't need B-52's over there. There are FB-111's in Turkey, > along with some B-2's. There's no real need for the real big boys. >Both of the B-2s are here at Edwards AFB. They are _not_ operational >and will not be deployed. >Perhaps you meant the F-117A, which is indeed in the area. I think they >might be in Turkey, but am not certain. I suspect that the original poster probably meant B-1B's, rather than B-2's. Jon ____________________________________________________________________________ Jon W. Meyer | "I'd travel 10,000 miles to smoke a camel" FA, CA ARNG | Caption from the (unofficial) desert shield tee-shirt. | | "If, when the battle's over, your infantry does not love you, | you are a poor artillery man."