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bonovich said during the f - 16 and kfir intercepts some communications issues were identified and the south carolina air guard assisted in correcting those issues to improve interoperability between the two air forces .
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rionegro, colombia - the south carolina air national guard wrapped up a full week in rionegro supporting its state partner during the colombian air force' s feria aeronautica internacional – colombia, july 13 - 16 .
a long - distance bomber similar to this b - 47 stratojet dropped a bomb on a south carolina farm in 1958 .
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yes, an actual atomic bomb was dropped on south carolina in the 1950s. what' s the history behind this obscure incident ?
south carolina has some tempting targets for terrorists, including one of the largest u. s. military bases—shaw air force base in sumter. federal air marshals work under the threat of personal physical violence and wider terrorist attacks. in 2012 alone, tsa agents found three firearms at checkpoints at the charleston international airport and in 2011 a man from south carolina was arrested for assaulting a federal air marshal aboard a domestic flight .
after arriving in colombia, the 169th joined with a kc - 135 from tinker air force base, oklahoma, a kc - 10 from the 349th air mobility wing at travis air force base, california, and the air combat command' s viper east demo team from shaw air force base, south carolina, to participate in the four - day air show. u. s. strategic command also coordinated a b - 52 flyover during the air show' s kick - off ceremony .
the south carolina national guard has been paired with the republic of colombia through the national guard' s state partnership program since july 2012 .
jets assigned to the 157th fighter squadron, south carolina air national guard prepares for takeoff during a phase ii operational readiness evaluation (ore). the phase ii ore evaluates a unit? s ability to launch missions while in a chemical warfare environment. the 169th is home of the swamp foxes of the south carolina air national guard. (usaf photo by msgt marvin r. preston )
guests watch the aerial demonstrations at josé maría córdova international airport during feria aeronautica internacional—colombia 2017 in rionegro, colombia, july 15, 2017. the united states air force is participating in the four - day air show with two south carolina air national guard f - 16s as static displays, plus many other displays .
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while this was the first time the 169th fighter wing had deployed and exercised fighters to colombia straight from south carolina, it was not the first time the unit has sent f - 16s to rionegro. in 2014, the wing sent 100 airmen and six jets here in a two - week exercise called
relampago
or lightning in spanish. each year the south carolina air national guard participates in subject matter expert exchanges with the colombian air force ranging from medical to legal engagements .
while south carolina avidly seeks visitors, this level of traffic requires the presence of the federal air marshals service. these professionals are tasked with using their behavioral training to identify individuals who are acting suspiciously before they commit acts of terrorism or violence .
the week also included a key leader engagement between the state' s adjutant general, u. s. army maj. gen. robert livingston, and leaders from the south carolina air national guard, all meeting with colombian air force leadership, u. s. air forces southern commander, lt. gen. mark kelly and the u. s. ambassador to colombia, kevin whitaker. the series of meetings throughout the week further strengthened the partnership and helped identify areas the south carolina national guard and the colombian military can work together in the future .
the unites states air force' s participation in the air show provides an opportunity to strengthen the military - to - military relationships with regional partners and provides the opportunity to meet with colombian air force counterparts .
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u. s. air force lt. col. chip barton, colombian desk officer at u. s. air forces southern, said the week was a huge success .
if you ever find yourself traveling on crater road in mars bluff, south carolina, be sure and carve out a few moments for a marker commemorating this whimsical footnote in cold war history - that time the us nearly nuked itself .
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as for the greggs, they never returned to life in the country. with the $ 54, 000 they received in damages from the air force — which in 1958 had about the same buying power as $ 460, 000 would today — the family relocated to florence, south carolina, living in a brick bungalow on a quiet neighborhood street .
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their home was no longer inhabitable and their outbuildings had been destroyed — even the family' s free - range chickens had been utterly wiped from the face of the south carolina farm. the blast was so powerful it cracked windows and walls in the small community of mars bluff, about 5 miles (8 kilometers) away from the family farm .
despite some powerful unbelievers in influential government positions, the course was set for air power and its important role in the wars of the future. great britain recognized this importance by creating the royal air force in april 1918. while men like brigadier general billy mitchell fought for an american force equivalent to the raf, the united states would take several more years before coming into agreement about the importance of having a separate air force. the army reorganization act of 1920 kept the air service a combat arm of the army for a long time after. years later, in june 1941, the army air forces was created and made an equal counterpart to the ground forces of the army .
air marshal skills – after they have passed the basic training course, candidates go to the faa william j. hughes technical center in new jersey where they further develop the skills they learned at the fletc. they train for sixteen weeks in the federal air marshal service training program ii .
in january 1953, the gregg family moved into a stoutly constructed home in a rural part of eastern south carolina, on land that had been in their family for 100 years. they had no idea that five years later, they would earn the dubious honor of being the first and only family to survive the first and only atomic bomb dropped on american soil — by americans .
and the bedroom, which thanks to mr. gregg’s pals at the air force, has been converted into a sun room, free of charge .
the visitor control center is to the right. additional information public affairs will not sponsor overnight visits. for boy scout camping opportunities troops must have a sponsor that is a member of the south carolina air national guard. the sponsor must obtain approval from the 169th fighter wing for the event. the sponsor must also be on - site with the troop for the duration of the camping or tour event. for additional information, call 803 - 647 - 8208 or e - mail usaf. sc. 169 - fw. mbx. public - affairs @ urltoken .
a similar incident occurred just a month before the south carolina accident, when a midair collision between a bomber and a fighter jet on a training mission caused a
safed
hydrogen bomb to fall near savannah, georgia. the incident was less dramatic than the mars bluff one, as the bomb plunged into the water off the coast of nearby tybee island, damaging no property and leaving no visible impact crater .
although smaller in size, the post - cold war air force has had increased participation in contingency operations in the 1990' s. while maintaining units in the persian gulf area to deter saddam hussein from threatening neighboring countries, the air force has supported peacekeeping and humanitarian operations in somalia (restore hope), rwanda (support hope), haiti (uphold democracy) and the balkans (provide promise and deny flight). also, to stop a bloody civil war in bosnia, af aircraft made precision strikes against serbian assets in operation deliberate force in late 1995. on the unstable korean peninsula, the air force has continued in providing deterrents aimed at the communist northern government, while supporting the democratic south .
the week started with two swamp fox f - 16s flying to colombia and meeting up with the colombian air force' s kfirs, based in palenquero for some mid - air training. the series of radio drills and intercepts which lasted for an hour and a half were aimed at assisting the colombians in preparing for red flag in march 2018 .
and as for the playhouse, that was ground zero - so other than an 70x35 foot crater, there really wasn’t anything left for the air force to take pictures of .
the mark 6 bomb that fell onto this remote area of south carolina weighed 7, 600 pounds (3. 4 metric tons) and was 10 feet, 8 inches (3. 3 meters) long. with a maximum diameter of 61 inches (1. 5 meters), the mark 6 had an inflated, cartoon - like quality, reminiscent of something wile e. coyote would order from the acme co. its capabilities, however, were no laughing matter .
u. s. air force col. nick gentile, commander of the 169th fighter wing, called the experience both
productive
and
a positive bi - lateral exercise
.
bonovich, and the other swamp fox airmen, who came for the air show spent their week interacting with the public, shaking hands, exchanging hugs and posing for thousands of pictures .
the cold war saw a rapid growth of airpower in a different way in comparison to the buildup of world war ii. the central focus was long - range bombers that could deliver nuclear weapons to the soviet union. the soviet - backed invasion of south korea by communist north korea pulled the air force into a tough three - year conflict. along with the action in korea, the armed forces began to place air power in multiple theatres of the world to help deter the expansion of communism while helping to defend the united states. u. s. air bases in europe began the cornerstone to the political and geographical power of the north atlantic treaty organization (nato). nato was created as a counter to the soviet - led warsaw pact of eastern european countries. this use of u. s. airpower would continue to facilitate peaceful relations during the cold war for the next 40 years .
in the 1970' s, the air force focused on investing in the production of new, more advanced aircraft and satellite platforms. some of the new aircraft to commission during this time were the a - 10 thunderbolt ii, f - 15 eagle, f - 16 fighting falcon, e - 3 sentry and m - x peacekeeper. all of these systems helped to further the air force' s future missions involving air supremacy and dominance. in the ensuing decade, the air force' s capabilities began to expand even more with the building of the f - 117a stealth fighter. its substantial power in combat was proven in several contingency operations in the 1980' s including the seizure of grenada in 1983 (urgent fury), the raid on libya in 1986 (el dorado canyon) and the invasion of panama in 1989 (just cause) .
today, military - grade nuclear weapons can take more knocking around without exploding. in fact, accidents like that at mars bluff caused the air force to make changes. no longer could a nuclear weapon be set off by concussion; it would require a specific electrical impulse instead. and within days of accidentally dropping a bomb on u. s. soil, the air force published regulations that locking pins must be inserted in nuclear bomb shackles at all times — even during takeoff and landing .
although the event was written about extensively at the time - and it gets brought up whenever an outlet’s having a slow news day - a 2012 foia request by carlton purvis led to the release of some rarely - seen photos of the air force investigation into the incident .
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tour information base tours are offered to local civic organizations, schools and youth groups middle - school age and older to educate people about the south carolina air national guard and mcentire’s missions. tours are free of charge and can be subject to last - minute cancellations due to mission requirements and resource availability. we do not accommodate tour requests to combine different groups. tours are given twice a month on thursdays not preceding a drill weekend and are scheduled on a first - requested, first - served basis. public tours of mcentire joint national guard base are available to groups of 10 to 40 people. tours for children under the age of 10 are considered on a case - by - case basis and must be requested by a scang sponsor who will be able to accompany the group. no tours will be given on drill weekends or federal holidays. tour requests must be submitted no later than 60 days prior to the date of the tour and requested through the 169th fighter wing public affairs office. tours are coordinated one month in advance. groups requesting a tour must complete the tour request form and e - mail it back to usaf. sc. 169 - fw. mbx. public - affairs @ urltoken .
on the ground, all five members of the gregg family were injured, as was young cousin ella, who required 31 stitches. it wasn' t until the family was recuperating at the home of the family doctor that evening that they learned that the source of destruction had been a bomb dropped by the u. s. air force .
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then, at 4: 19 p. m. , a member of the crew aboard a u. s. air force b - 47e bomber accidentally released a nuclear weapon that landed on the girls' playhouse and the family' s nearby garden, creating a massive crater with a circumference of 50 feet (15 meters) and depth of 35 feet (10 meters) .
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the greggs ended up suing the air force for their trouble, and settled for $ 54, 000 - just shy of $ 450, 000 today. to put that in perspective, ten years later, johnny cash would burn down an entire forest, and was fined $ 82, 000, or $ 570, 000. half a million to drop a nuke on a house? that’s a steal !
in 1977, the greggs sold the 4 acres (2 hectares) that had been their home site. from the road, there is little evidence that it had once been the site of an air force bombing, aside from a small roadside historical marker on u. s. route 301. to reach the site you have to travel into an abandoned space that once housed a trailer park, and walk through an overgrown path that leads to what remains of the crater, significantly smaller, usually full of stagnant water and now marked by a plywood sign .
it was the height of the cold war, when global powers vied for nuclear dominance. but it was an oops for the ages. not only did the gregg girls and their cousin narrowly miss becoming the first people killed by an atomic bomb on u. s. soil, but they now had a hole on their farm in which they could easily park a couple of school buses. their garden ceased to exist; the playhouse seemed to have disappeared into thin air, save a small piece of tin from the roof; and the family home sat at a tilted angle, no longer flush with the foundation, surrounded by parts of itself .
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on march 11, 1958, two of the greggs' children — helen, 6, and frances, 9 — entertained their 9 - year - old cousin ella davies. the girls were horsing around in a playhouse adjacent to the family' s garden while nearby, the gregg girls' father, walter, and brother, walter jr. , worked in a toolshed .
by midafternoon, the sisters and their cousin had wandered about 200 feet (60 meters) away from the playhouse and were playing in the yard beside their home. inside, their mother sat sewing in the front parlor .
earlier that day, a specialized crew was part of a training exercise that would require the bomb to be loaded into an airplane and flown from savannah, georgia, to england. as the mock mission, detailed in this american heritage account, began, it took more than an hour to load the bomb into the plane. after placing the bomb into a shackle mechanism designed to keep it in place, the crew had a hard time getting a steel locking pin to engage. they solved the issue by lifting the weight of the plane' s bomb shackle mechanism and putting it onto a sling, then hitting the offending pin with a hammer until it locked into position .
the mission was being timed, and the crew was under pressure to catch up. following regulations, the captain disengaged the locking pin from the nuclear weapon so it could be dropped in an emergency during takeoff. when the airplane reached altitude, he tried to re - engage the pin from the cockpit controls, but because of the earlier makeshift solution, it wouldn' t budge. the pilot asked the bombardier to leave his post and engage the pin by hand — something the bombardier had never done before. in fact, he didn' t even know where the pin was located. after searching for more than 10 minutes, he pulled himself up to look over the bomb' s curved belly .
unfortunately, as he was trying to steady himself, the bombardier chose the emergency bomb - release mechanism for his handhold. the nuclear bomb immediately dropped from its shackle and landed, for just an instant, on the closed bomb - bay doors. above it, the bombardier' s body made an x as he hung on for dear life. as he scrambled to safety, the atomic bomb broke open the doors in the belly of the plane, and dropped straight onto the greggs' farm .
herein lies the silver lining. the atomic bomb was not fully functional. it had been
safed
for transport, meaning that the radioactive part of the bomb' s payload was removed and was being moved in a different plane .
in the 1950s, nuclear weapons had a trigger that compressed the uranium / plutonium core to begin the chain reaction of a nuclear explosion. nuclear bombs like the one dropped on the greggs could be set off, or triggered, by concussion — like being struck by a bullet or making hard contact with the ground. in the greggs' case, the bomb' s trigger did explode and cause damage. if the nuclear components had been present, catastrophe would have ensued .
not too many people can say they' ve had a nuclear bomb dropped on them ,
walter gregg told local newspaper the sun news in 2003 .
not too many would want to .
the greggs remained in touch with the crew, who reportedly felt badly about dropping a bomb on them. for years, crew members continued to correspond with the family via letters, and one even visited the family for a week' s vacation decades after the incident .
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as well as buildings b and c (a garage and children’s playhouse, respectively), walter gregg and his family is pretty clearly the aggrieved party in this scenario. this is how the garage turned out …
again, the blast was not nuclear - the core had been removed for transit - but the mark 6 was still packed with the traditional explosives used to set off the chain reaction, and weighed in the ballpark of 7, 600 - 8, 500 pounds. one of those lands in your backyard, it’s going to ruin your day .
although the back, which was facing the explosion, didn’t quite come out so well .
the inside of the house however, was absolutely destroyed - here we have the dining room, where the remarkably alive mrs. gregg was working at the time of the blast …
so, what happen? according to the inquiry, somebody didn’t set up the bomb properly. while en route to england for a training exercise, captain earl e. koehler of the 375th bombardment squadron noticed an emergency light which indicated that their payload wasn’t properly harnessed .
a loose nuke being sufficient cause for alarm, koehler sent the navigator, bruce m. kulka, in to go lock the bomb back into place before it caused any serious damage .
turns out, kulka had to get on top of the bomb in order to reset the locking mechanism, so he reached around for something to use as a handhold … and accidentally pulled the emergency release .
that’s kulka all the way on there right there, with the expression that reads “i’m really sorry i blew up your house. ”
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deborah levy opens her new memoir, the cost of living, by telling us one of those small stories whose size, like an ant or a virus, stands in inverse proportion to its power .
as levy recalls, one night, she was sitting alone in a bar in the caribbean. near her, a muscled middle - aged guy whose silver hair was gathered into a manbun started chatting up a young woman. levy comes to refer to him as
big silver .
w. kamau bell is embracing the word
negro .
it' s a term that connects him to civil rights icons of the past .
some people may be offended by it, but to me it just feels very like classically, importantly black ,
bell says .
it reminds me of a time when black people were angry and doing something about it. for me it takes me right back to the height of the civil rights movement with martin luther king jr. and coretta scott king and malcolm x .
by now, james corden has set a very high standard with his carpool karaoke tv pieces. only a million or two viewers watch him on cbs' the late late show when it' s broadcast, but youtube and other social media sites extend corden' s reach phenomenally .
in august 2015, dr. mona hanna - attisha was having a glass of wine in her kitchen with two friends, when one friend, a water expert, asked if she was aware of what was happening to the water in flint, mich .
hanna - attisha, a pediatrician in flint, knew that the city had changed its water source the previous year. instead of channeling water from the great lakes, residents were now drinking water from the nearby flint river. she had been aware of some problems with bacteria after the switch, but she thought everything had been cleared up .
much has been written about donald trump as a politician and as a businessman, but a new book by vanity fair journalist emily jane fox looks at the president through a different lens: as the head of a family .
fox' s new book, born trump: inside america' s first family, focuses on trump' s three marriages and five children — as well as on his relationship with son - in - law and adviser jared kushner .
one summer' s day a few years ago, my daughter and her friends piled into a car that one of them had recently gotten a license to drive .
where are you going ?
i asked with false calm .
we' re driving up wisconsin avenue until it turns into rockville pike ,
my daughter said, naming some roads in and around washington, d. c .
then ,
she continued ,
we' re gonna keep on driving up rockville pike. we want to see what' s at the end .
to meet and exercise on a deployment down is a first ,
said gentile .
the colombian people are extremely friendly and welcoming ,
said master sgt. john bonovich, an f - 16 avionics technician with the 169th aircraft maintenance squadron .
they are eager to work with us, and good partners all the way around .
we are demonstrating our commitment to the colombian people by our presence here ,
barton said .
a look back at the main training phases of the # tradewinds18 exercise that wrapped up this week. the exercise focus… urltoken
rt @ usembassynassau: u. s. and mexican armed forces engage during a uh - 60 blackhawk helicopter familiarization and training event at the roy…
operations support flight provides assistance during u. s. , central american static line jumps
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air south was a low-cost airline from the united states , headquartered in columbia , south carolina . between 1994 and 1997 , it offered domestic flights mainly serving the southeast of the country . for a time , a partnership with kiwi international airlines was maintained . 
air south was a low-cost airline from the united states, headquartered in columbia, south carolina. between 1994 and 1997, it offered domestic flights mainly serving the southeast of the country. for a time, a partnership with kiwi international airlines was maintained.
air south was a low-cost airline from the united states, headquartered in columbia, south carolina. between 1994 and 1997, it offered domestic flights mainly serving the southeast of the country. for a time, a partnership with kiwi international airlines was maintained.