Can't fool those four-star boys for too long.
No more nukes criss-crossing the country unless someone knows where they are from now on. Or from next September on. Nothing will happen between then & now, will it?
The Air Force announced the plan for Global Strike Command, to be headed by a three-star general, as part of a broader revamp to sharpen the focus on its nuclear mission.
Glad they're sharpening that focus. Eyes may not have been on the ball for a while.
Gates also ordered a review into the Pentagon's management of nuclear weapons, headed by former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, which found a "dramatic and unacceptable" decline in the Air Force's commitment to its nuclear mission.
See? And to what the fuck were they committing, then? The usual bombing of villages & slaughter of civilians in Afghanistan?
Schlesinger's report recommended redesignating the Air Force's Space Command as Air Force Strategic Command and giving it responsibility for the service's nuclear mission.
But Gen. Norton Schwartz, the Air Force chief of staff, said officials had been concerned the space and nuclear missions could be too much for one command and decided instead to create a separate command dedicated to nuclear issues.
"Our road map reflects a back to basics approach," Schwartz said.
Currently, the Air Force's Space Command oversees nuclear missiles, while Air Combat Command oversees nuclear bombers.
The new command should start operating by next September and be responsible for nuclear-capable B-52 and B-2 bombers as well as intercontinental ballistic missiles, Donley said.
Up in the air, Junior Birdmen!!
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