82nd airborne put on alert for deployment. One battalion in route to Kuwait .

RCH295 is on the descent over Wichita Falls. There are a couple of options available for his destination. Fort Worth being one, to pick up gear for fighters to move out. The other, more interesting option, is Shreveport. That's home of Barksdale, where B-52s are based.

And it would appear Shreveport it is. May see B-52s heading out soon.

a reply to: RickyD

The C-130s are based at Spangdahlem in Germany. They're probably just on a local round robin mission.

a reply to: Zaphod58

Ah...I just remember seeing we had elint and a jstars over the easter block last night while that raid went down.

a reply to: RickyD

J-STARS was probably training with the Polish. The RC keeps an eye on Russian bases in the area.

a reply to: Zaphod58

Well yea it would stand to reason we would want to know if they were moving anything that way to help their allies.

a reply to: RickyD

Mildenhall has a permanent detachment of the 55th Reconnaissance Wing. They rotate Cobra Ball, Rivet Joint, and Combat Sent through about every 4-6 months. They operate out of Mildenhall over the Med, up around Norway and Poland, and get as close to the Russian bases as they can. Each type of aircraft has a different sensor suite.

HKY 500/501/502 heading south towards the med. Will be interesting to see if they do indeed go south with those C5Ms.

a reply to: RickyD

They may run a regular resupply run down to Kuwait, or the Deid.

RCH827 descending over Quebec, probably into Bangor for a fuel stop.

a reply to: Zaphod58

they droped to say hello while over me ! they look going back up now

originally posted by: toysforadults
a reply to: SailorJerry

ain't no joke buddy, the market is ALWAYS right, just ask Mnuchin

uhh thanks for the graph relevance to anything in this thread?

RCH472 C17 and RCH219 C5M heading East to sea

originally posted by: Zaphod58
Looks like RC622 is heading home, back to Travis, not over to Europe.

Whats the military bird count on our side now in the AO

a reply to: Dolby_X

They were down to 12,000 and heading slightly east towards Bangor, then a minute later were showing 35,000. I love data glitches.

a reply to: Zaphod58

Saw the 12 000 but pretty sure the plane heading Bangor you missplace it with a Canada plane that was heading to st-jhons maybe ?

a reply to: SailorJerry

It's fluctuating pretty wildly, so hard to keep a solid count. Most of them are dropping off, and as soon as they're done with crew rest heading back. Should be a couple C-17s on the ground, two C-5s over the Med heading in.

As soon as I said that, two C-17s showed up on the way out. Tonight has been pretty slow compared to the last couple nights. Right now just about everything is over the Atlantic on the way in.

a reply to: Dolby_X

No, it looked like he dropped down over Quebec and was going to turn east into Bangor behind the Canadian A310.

originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: SailorJerry

It's fluctuating pretty wildly, so hard to keep a solid count. Most of them are dropping off, and as soon as they're done with crew rest heading back. Should be a couple C-17s on the ground, two C-5s over the Med heading in.

As soon as I said that, two C-17s showed up on the way out. Tonight has been pretty slow compared to the last couple nights. Right now just about everything is over the Atlantic on the way in.

So im guessing were dropping off personnel and equipment, its def a significant build up....looks like were expecting a response

a reply to: SailorJerry

They took 750 the first day. They announced 3,000 or 3,500 going today. Tomorrow we should have a bunch of aircraft heading back over.