RE: Background Material: A call for Help from US Easterners

--- Andreas Udby <javelin98@lycos.com> wrote:
>  
> > I also believe that there is an Air Force base
> near Spokane.  
> 
> That's Fairchild AFB -- a SAC base with nuclear
> capability.  I grew up there, and we used to watch
> the B-52's flying around all the time, but to see a
> fighter is rare.

Fairchild's also home to a major tanker base AND a
survival school.  Most of the Northwest's fighters are
in Portland and Klamath Falls, Oregon ANG. 

> There's also Mountainhome AFB in Idaho and Malmstrom
> AFB in Montana;  those might be TAC bases, although
> I don't know for sure any more.

When I lived in ID as a boy, Mountain Home was an
F-111 base.  Not sure these days.

> Western Washington has Fort Lewis (3rd Bde, 2ID; 
> 1st Bde, 25th ID;  2nd Ranger Bn.;  1st SFG),
> McChord AFB (mostly heavy lift stuff), Bangor sub
> base, Bremerton shipyard, and the Whidbey Island
> NAS, if anyone needs a run-down.  It's the largest
> concentration of US military power north of San
> Diego/Ft. Irwin and west of Colorado.

And with San Diego busy fighting it's southern
neighbors, Cascadia would have a fighting chance,
assuming it maintains good diplomacy with it's eastern neighbors.

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you are."

- Anonymous

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