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Published December 17, 2021

Minot B-52s Fly to Canada Then Calif. to Practice the Bomber Version of ACE

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Airmen with the 5th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron push open a B-52H Stratofortress bomb bay door to load weapons on Dec. 7, 2021, at Edwards Air Force Base, California. [U.S. Air Force photo by SrA Michael A. Richmond]
Airmen with the 5th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron push open a B-52H Stratofortress bomb bay door to load weapons on Dec. 7, 2021, at Edwards Air Force Base, California. [U.S. Air Force photo by SrA Michael A. Richmond]

Preparing for conflict in the Pacific will require more than learning to fly fighters out of austere locations—it will also call for small bomber crews to go on quick consecutive missions to unfamiliar places.

In a kinetic “bomber agile combat employment” (BACE) exercise Dec. 6-8, two B-52s from the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., conducted a mission in Canada then flew to Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., for a second mission, this time working alongside . . . [Read the rest of this story in Air Force Magazine].

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