GOV/MIL Dot? F-22's from Alaska sent to Guam

triggerfish

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Yesterday the local newspaper in Guam posted an article about F-22's being deployed to Guam for up to "4 months". Things are heating up with China and Japan over the disputed islands, lots of saber rattling.
I hardly know which direction to watch! (do you hear the hoofbeats?)

F-22 Raptor jets deployed to air base (Guam Pacific Daily News, Sept. 19, 2012)
A dozen F-22 Raptor fighter jets have been deployed to Andersen Air Force Base, and the deployment could last up to four months, said Air Force spokesman Capt. Chris Hoyler. The jets are accompanied by about 200 personnel, Hoyler said. According to a press release, the jets come from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska. Hoyler said yesterday that he could not discuss the number of flights that are planned for the F-22s while they are on Guam, but he said the aircraft noise should be more significant than it was during other recent training events such as Cope North and Valiant Shield.
 
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mt4design

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Take this, couple it with the account of the AC-130s moving out, and we got something brewing.

Mike
 

Mzkitty

I give up.
This was posted elsewhere:

Alaska F-22s deployed to Pacific even as tensions escalate between China, Japan
Ben Anderson | Sep 18, 2012


Alaska’s fleet of F-22 fighter jets and their elite pilots have been deployed to an airbase in the Pacific U.S. territory of Guam, according to officials at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage. The deployment has been planned for some time, but happens to coincide with a period of escalating tension in the Pacific Theater, as Japan and China dispute who has the rights to a set of uninhabited, resource-rich islands.

Long article, continued here:

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/artic...ic-even-tensions-escalate-between-china-japan
 

raven

TB Fanatic
Like "big-assed dot"?

Nothing long
Dot - Elmendorf F-22s to Guam
How do you find anything with every labeled "Dot"

And it would be even nicer if these 3 - Guam F-22s, AC-130s, Norfolk were combined in one thread with new departures updated when they are found

Chasing Dots
 
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