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Offline bcadoo

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Broken Arrow
« on: December 31, 2012, 09:46:59 PM »
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Re: Broken Arrow
« Reply #1 on: January 01, 2013, 07:57:01 PM »
Wow.  I had not heard of this incident before.  I wonder why?  :headscratch:   ;) 

Thanks for sharing that.  Good stuff.
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Re: Broken Arrow
« Reply #2 on: January 01, 2013, 09:12:37 PM »
There is a missing nuclear bomb in the much next to Savanah, Ga in the ocean.  They can't find it for all of these years.

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Re: Broken Arrow
« Reply #3 on: January 02, 2013, 09:26:45 AM »
There is a missing nuclear bomb in the much next to Savanah, Ga in the ocean.  They can't find it for all of these years.

I had seen that story on TV, evidently the bomb was dropped from a B47 because the aircraft was damaged in a mid-air collision and there was a fear that it would detonate if the plane crashed upon landing?

I wonder how many of these types of incidences occurred in the Soviet Union over the years.  It isn't like they had the best protocols or quality to work with.
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Re: Broken Arrow
« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2013, 10:36:38 AM »
Great read .. they were very lucky the second bomb didn't go off apparantly.
I wonder if he wore the shirt:
"EOD..if you see me running try and KEEP UP!"

in 'We Were Soldiers' with Mel Gibson ..
..made me cringe a bit when they used the term 'broken arrow'
as a call-in to all support in the area.

Spent a few years on the line workin nuke-armed birds
..so it was a huge disconnect to hear the term so wrongly used.

I am sure if he did the research there probably is a term used just for what he wanted.

-just sayin (tm Pasha)

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Re: Broken Arrow
« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2013, 12:55:54 PM »
There is a missing nuclear bomb in the much next to Savanah, Ga in the ocean.  They can't find it for all of these years.

It is somewhere off of Tybee Island, GA.   
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Re: Broken Arrow
« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2013, 07:03:09 PM »
...in 'We Were Soldiers' with Mel Gibson ..
..made me cringe a bit when they used the term 'broken arrow'
as a call-in to all support in the area.

Spent a few years on the line workin nuke-armed birds
..so it was a huge disconnect to hear the term so wrongly used.

I am sure if he did the research there probably is a term used just for what he wanted.
-Frank aka GE


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ia_Drang#Three-pronged_attack


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As the battle along the southern line intensified, Lieutenant Charlie W. Hastings (USAF liaison: forward air controller), made the decision (based on criteria established by the USAF) to transmit the code phrase "Broken Arrow", which relayed that an American combat unit was in danger of being overrun. In so doing, Hastings was calling on all available support aircraft in the country to come to the battalion's defense, drawing on a significant arsenal of heavy ordnance support.

Looks like a pretty well-written account...

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There is a missing nuclear bomb ... next to Savanah, Ga in the ocean.  They can't find it for all of these years.

SPECTRE probably got it...    :)

Offline Grayeagle

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Re: Broken Arrow
« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2013, 09:52:36 PM »
So 'broken arrow' is a code for two entirely different events... weird.

I did not know that.

typical FUBAR.

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Re: Broken Arrow
« Reply #8 on: January 07, 2013, 08:55:44 AM »
So 'broken arrow' is a code for two entirely different events... weird.

I did not know that.

typical FUBAR.

-Frank aka GE



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Re: Broken Arrow
« Reply #9 on: January 08, 2013, 02:14:01 PM »
Oh yes.  The term "broken arrow" has been around a long time, much earlier than the USAF usage in its nuclear warhead "oh Sh%t" code phrases. 

IIRC, at least in modern times it has something to do with Custer's Last Stand.   
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