Navy veteran questions why six nuclear missiles were flown on combat aircraft to staging area for Mi

[MiaCulpa]

Source: The Raw Story

A retired lieutenant commander in the Navy Reserve who served with the Navy's Supervisor of Salvage questioned in a little-noticed editorial Sunday why six active nuclear armed cruise missiles were being transferred to an active bomber base that "just happens to be the staging area for Middle Eastern operations."

"The United States also does not transport nuclear weapons meant for elimination attached to their launch vehicles under the wings of a combat aircraft," Navy veteran Robert Stormer wrote in the Texas-based Star-Telegram. "The procedure is to separate the warhead from the missile, encase the warhead and transport it by military cargo aircraft to a repository -- not an operational bomber base that just happens to be the staging area for Middle Eastern operations."

Full story from John Byrne of Raw Story here:

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Navy_veteran_questions_why_six_nuclear_1008.html

Read more: http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Navy_veteran_questions_why_six_nuclear_1008.html

[Rick Myers]

1. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=313002&mesg_id=313002

[MiaCulpa]

2. Really?

Sorry I don't see it anywhere.

[defendandprotect]

3. Websites seem to be the only place discussing this -- Where's Olbermann????

Where's Congress --- ???

[defendandprotect]

4. This didn't happen for any good reason . .. . !!!