Hey John I thought someone up at the Maine tower job I been doing for the last few years told me that Brunswick was only training now? Most of what I see these guys doing up there is circular flight and touch n go's on the runway?
Some of this stuff is stupid. No way they will close Otis you watch.
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Originally Posted by JohnR
Some of this on the surface does not make sense.
Otis - the primary intercept strip alert base for the northern half of the east coast. What's the nearest? 15s or 16s out of VA? The flight radius of those aircraft is roughly 800 miles or so with the 15s and the 16s much less. So in our fine hour of defending against the potential of airliners as weapons, we are now going to lose the pointy end of that spear to defend that - makes no sense 
Brunswick - they are moving the P3s to Florida. The P3s hunt subs. The P3s can interdict shipping and both the shipping and commercial air routes from Eruope path closest to Maine. What possible reason would you have the nearest base to stage these aircraft from down in Florida? You've killed 60% of the fuel of these aircraft just flying from Fl to Maine.
So your two primary air defense roles - air and ships (including subs) are going to be moving 400 - 1500 miles away? In today's environment? Sure, you don't need 4 squadrons of P3s on the east coast to hunt Soviet subs like the old days but do you really want the closest P3 base five hours away? Do you really want to have no scramble aircraft available today? This is plain stupid....
I won't get into closing Groton  |
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