Nightwatch 'Doomsday' planes spending more time at Barksdale AFB
BOSSIER CITY, La. - Just about everybody who lives and or works in Bossier City has looked up and seen a B-52 or maybe a fighter jet. And some have seen something that looks a little more like a commercial aircraft such as a 747 fly over on occasion and thought, what's that? Maj. Gen. Mark Weatherington "The E4-B Nightwatch is a robust airborne communications node that links the President and other senior government leaders to our national capabilities and strategic forces during a time of crisis," said Maj. Gen. Mark Weatherington, Eighth Air Force and Global Strike Operations Center com...
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