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    When Secret Mystery Planes Landed At The Air Bases Where I Was Stationed

    When Secret Mystery Planes Landed At The Air Bases Where I Was Stationed It may sound like fiction, but on rare occasions, ordinary air bases have extraordinary mystery visitors. It happened to me, twice.


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    In the 2004 and 2005 time frame, the Global War On Terrorism was in full swing with a high ops tempo. The United States Air Force’s Air Combat Command made a routine out of keeping a bomber rotation at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean and that’s how the author found his way there. B-1s, B-52s, and the occasional B-2 regularly made deployments there to stage for combat missions over Afghanistan.


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    Actually a United States Naval Support Facility with a deep water port and runway capable of receiving the Space Shuttle, Diego Garcia is a part of the British Indian Ocean Territories comprising the greater Chagos Archipelago. Its extreme isolation has made it a hotbed for unsubstantiated accusations of classified and even nefarious activity. I never observed anything nefarious, but it was entertaining reading about how the tent I lived in was supposedly part of a CIA “black site” for terrorist detainees. If the Air Force’s rowdy flightline maintainers and their tent city could be considered detainees in the Global War On Terror, then an ounce of truth could be credited towards the metric ton of false information that could be found on the internet about the remote Indian Ocean outpost.


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    Then, we had some interesting visitors...


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    All of these planes have limited range and need regular maintenance, so yes they have to be moved around as needed for assignments and you might get to see one!

    Of course at places like Groom Lake they have blackout procedures where anyone not cleared goes inside and stays put when testing is going on.
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    I know a girl in the Navy that recently got back after what seemed like about 18 months. She just thought it was a pretty boring place to be stationed.
    But with nothing going on in Afghanistan anymore and being just before Ukraine, I guess there was not much going on when she was stationed there.
    Let's go Brandon !!!

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