By the way, that China story, the headline, China won't retaliate. Imagine one billion people out of work in downtown Beijing. Last week, the consensus on CNBC (the movie I was watching; others were watching a different movie, I assume) was that the Chinese would outlast Trump in the tariff wars.
By the way, did anyone catch this story?
We were stationed at RAF Lakenheath for three years back in the late 1980s. I was working the RAF Mildenhall clinic, a flight surgeon's clinic at the sister base to Lakenheath. My assigned aircraft was the F-111. I was one of two flight surgeons at RAF Mildenhall. We provided support for the SR-1st 71 "Blackbird" community.
Some time after we came back to the states, the SR-71 mission was ended at RAF Mildenhall; and the F-15 replaced the F-111 at RAF Lakenheath.
While at RAF Mildenhall, I often visited the home of a British gentleman who built a new house right at the edge of the fence line at the end of the runway. I am pretty certain this is where the filming for this video was done. The wall of his home closest to the base was less than five feet from the fence line, and had a huge window from which he watched and filmed air base operations. He sold Maerklin railroad hobby trains -- that's how I met him.
Look how incredibly active this base is -- F-15s and then C-130's taxiing in, in the background. And then a KC-135, 100 Air Refueling Wing -- obviously taking part in this same mission. My hunch is after max take-off, the F-15s will re-fuel for a long training mission.
Minimal markings on the C-130s and the personnel surrounding the C-130s suggest to me these are Special Ops. I had one mission with Special Ops while assigned to RAF Mildenhall, flying into Norway.
Holy mackerel -- it turns out there were three KC-135s. Clearly a big training exercise.
From RAF Lakenheath. Wow, look at the after-burners kick in:
EOR was right across from the elementary - middle school - high school on base. Teaching had to shut down when fighters took off.
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