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- strafefire, on 10/10/2007, -3/+41It's called a [safety] stand down. It happens when ***** gets ***** up, or someone gets hurt, and all personnel, with the exception of critical processes, are told to stop working and watch training videos all day.
During this time period, even though everything before the stand down was going good, because of the ***** up, everyone is a ***** up...and an idiot..but we are not blaming YOU for being an idiot...everyone is an idiot..but you are not dumb...
Lather, rinse, repeat for 5-16 hours, and then you go back about your business...
For example: Some idiots ran across the flight deck while an F-18 was getting to land the last month I was in the navy. That was a 12 SHIP WIDE stand down on flight deck safety and drills. If I, or anybody in my whole department for that matter, some how ened up on the flight deck [being that we were in the Reactor/Engineering dept].....then the USS Enterprise was SEVERELY ***** up... - Albionshores, on 10/10/2007, -4/+42Why give people the reason to be bury this by linking the chatroom not the source?
The actual entry is at 11.56am (you'll have to scroll down) but here is the text:
Military admits bomber mistakenly flew nukes across country WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A B-52 bomber mistakenly carried six nuclear warheads on air-launched cruise missiles on a flight from North Dakota to Louisiana last week, prompting a major investigation, military officials have confirmed. The plane took the cruise missiles last Thursday from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base for decommissioning, but the warheads should have been removed from the missiles before they were attached to the B-52, according to military officials. The crew was unaware that they were carrying nuclear weapons, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the extraordinary sensitivity and security surrounding the case. The mistake was discovered after the plane's six-hour flight to Louisiana. Lt. Col. Ed Thomas said that while the military does not publicly discuss nuclear weapons procedures, in this case the Air Force decided to acknowledge the incident in order to reassure the public. "The public was never in any danger," Thomas said. But officials also said the incident was a major breach of security rules surrounding nuclear weapons. One Air Force official said that he could not recall anything similar happening. The Air Force announced that all flights of fighters and bombers in the United States will be halted on Sept. 14 to allow for a review of procedures. --From Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr (Posted 11:56 a.m.)
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/09/05/wednesday/index.html - Dextrose, on 10/10/2007, -7/+28Buried for sensationalism -- and simply NOT having a ***** clue about how the military works.
And yes -- I was once a member of the U.S. military, so I have a leg to stand on. - TritonX, on 10/10/2007, -5/+23"review of procedures"
Can anyone explain why they have to ground military flights to review the procedures?
Am I the only one to find this explanation stupid? - Nelstone, on 10/10/2007, -10/+27Don't make any travel plans that day, if you can help it.
- foopirata, on 10/10/2007, -5/+21This is SOP (standard operating procedure) in Air Forces all over the world. When there's a major accident, all planes of the type involved are ground until the cause is found. If there's a breach of procedure, all squadrons involved are grounded until further notice. I suppose that in the case of the USAF, and in an incident involving nuclear ordinance no less, all planes capable of delivering said ordinance would be grounded until the *****-up is sorted out and procedures revised.
Gotta be some twisted mind to see something sinister in this, SPECIALLY when it is announced in advance.
You can be sure that CAP and alert/alert+15 planes will be still in the air and on the ground. They'll only be extra-well-checked before wheels-up. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+17godlikeproductions.com yup....total valid.LOL
- jthomp3120, on 10/10/2007, -4/+16but I'll be taking the train to Washington DC for the September 15th protest
- cygnus2112, on 10/10/2007, -6/+18OMG FALSE FLAG NWO BILDERBERG BUSH NAZI CHENEY HALIBURTON FOX NEWS ZIONIST 9/11 JEWS CIA WMD LIES
- IrwinFletcher, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Sounds like a safety stand-down in the wake of the B-52 incident. Buried for sensationalism
- SilkSteel, on 10/10/2007, -8/+20I'm glad this is coming to the attention of more people now. When I first read the story about the missing nukes being flown over the US, the one glaring detail in the article was a passing mention of grounding all military flights on the 14th. I'm not much into conspiracies, but it just seems odd that the military could just lose 6 nukes and then go on to make it a huge story in the media, making sure everyone knows the reasoning behind grounding military flights on the 14th.
Things just don't add up... why would the military very publically announce something which can have very strong repercussions against national security - completely undefended skies.. what the *****? - fadetoone, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11Yes, because that rebellious state of Nebraska is known for its attacks on airplanes flying over its airspace...
- Lax32, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10I love when these stupid conspiracy theorists think that the government leaves these little clues for them to solve like a puzzle on their next upcoming attack.
Never to my knowledge has a conspiracy nut predicted anything correctly, I dont see why this would be any different. - jerrym123, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9You are 100% correct. I was in the Navy back in the early 1980's when a squadron crashed a plane into a mountain top at night and the whole freaking Navy came to a standstill to review safety procedures. This is no big deal airfarce probably does this same thing.
- omelette, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8If they hadn't announced it you'd cry that it was a cover up. I'm a pretty skeptical individual but damn. 2 choices: keep it hush hush or make a public statement. Both get you a conspiracy story on Digg.
- Hortnon, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11CURRENTLY a USAF member. And agreed, these people are clueless.
- raitchison, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8They already have nukes in the region.
- rationalthinker, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Its called a safety standown to review SOPs. It's common among military aviation communities... But of course on Digg,.. all the nuts come out of the woodwork commenting on ***** they know nothing about.
- DangerCollie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8A stand down on ops is not that unusual. And it takes a couple weeks to get all the review materials together and disseminated, schedule an all hands and get the word out. Two weeks is actually moving pretty fast. This isn't the first time it's happened. There was a mid-air collision between C-141's refueling and there was a safety stand down on flight ops to review refueling procedures.
We were excavating a sample trench in a landfill at Whidbey Island when an old practice bomb rolled out of a pile the bucket brought up. One of the chiefs picked it up...and shook it. We spent the next two days reviewing safety procedures like what to do when something shaped like a bomb turns up in a landfill. - Hortnon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Go away.
- Hortnon, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10I hope you know that squadrons defending the CONUS region aren't flying 24x7...
It'd be naive to think that if the US were attacked, the flights would stay grounded anyway. - h3llscaper, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9A SECOND ALEX JONES JUST HIT THE DIGG TOWERS
- Hortnon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Please, spam your comments more.
- ElbowGeek, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6AND PONIES!!!1!1ONEONE
- neoblaque, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7I think you have the most appropriate handle of any I have ever seen. TheCosmicFool
- Hortnon, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9That's his point...He's mocking truthers.
- norman619, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8What?
- dime, on 10/10/2007, -6/+12cool.
sept 14th is my birthday.
my mom's is sept 11th...
***** my family is cursed. - TheHydrogens, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7You could crash a plane carrying 20 nukes and not one would detonate. The only reason we should be worried is if some crazy extremist ***** get ahold of one.
- NeMoD, on 10/10/2007, -8/+14Well obviously if six nukes got by their procedures they would hault everything further to find out how to stop future mistakes.
I mean you would rather have planes unknowingly carrying nukes over your houses, wouldn't you? - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Wow. You're showing how sane you are. Keep it it.
- scuvball, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Ah *****... my plane flies out for England on the 15th
- raitchison, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Don't forget CENTCOM
- AgentFritz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I love it when Trolls make accounts just to spam this crap.
- KyjL, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Buried for Troof *****
A ***** 10 year old could pick apart those videos - VigilanteP, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6People like you give people like us who actually care about this country a really bad name.
- strafefire, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5And with that, Godwin's Law was proven yet again...
BTW you forgot TEH BBQ - raitchison, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I'm guessing he'll oblige you.
- centran, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Well said and @ djSyndrome... if you screw up at work do you get "punished" that very moment or the next day. Maybe, but it more likely might take a week. In this case it took two weeks.
The difference between the military and your work is if you screw up you get in trouble. In the military if you screwed up; Everybody screwed up! They take personal screw ups out on everyone to make sure it doesn't happen again. - scuvball, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5actually no. (manchester)
- Hortnon, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7So angry!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5What a load of utter garbage. Great way of taking quotes out of context.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Get lost spammer. You're a bloody insane to even equate your absurd beliefs to the genius of Einstein. Maybe to the greed of Columbus. Reported as comment abuse.
- raitchison, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4OMG PONIES!!
- cheeseron, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I can't figure out if you're joking or not
- AndrewDB, on 01/10/2008, -5/+9All 9/11 was an inside job people need to put poison in they're Kool-Aid before they drink it. :/
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4A combination of you spamming crap and using quotes completely taken out of context. Without context, I could take quotes from Mother Theresa and make her sound like a Nazi.
- mrfreeziexp, on 10/10/2007, -9/+12but..but.. bush..iraq....iran.... Ron Paul FTW!
/sarcasm - budgetguitar, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4So I can fly in the no-fly zones that day then? SWEET!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Shhh...don't give away State secrets.
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