Talk:Offutt Air Force Base

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Popular culture- "Ground Zero" documentary ~ 1979-80?[edit]

I vaguely remember Offut/Omaha being the subject of a hypothetical nuclear attack in a documentary on one of the networks. I think it was called "The Defense of the United States" and the episode was titled "Ground Zero". Does anyone have add'l info on this? 38.104.120.214 (talk) 16:05, 24 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

see: https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/14/arts/tv-view-a-five-part-examination-of-us-defenses.html and: https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/cbs-vs-defense/

165.225.0.190 (talk) 12:39, 2 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Looking Glass[edit]

"Operation Looking Glass carried out its mission without any mishaps or incidents during its 29+ years of existence." This is not true. I was stationed at Offutt 1966-1969. A "Looking Glass" crashed on take-off, killing all aboard. I do not recall the date. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.251.239.170 (talk) 04:16, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you can find an appropriate citation, make an edit. However, if what you observed is not published anywhere accessible by the public, then such an edit would be original research, which is disallowed. --Joe Sperrazza (talk) 04:41, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
There was a crash on takeoff during this period: On 17 July 1967, USAF KC-135R, 59-1465, stalled and crashed at Offutt Air Force Base after the pilot overrotated the aircraft during takeoff, killing one of five on board.[62] [1] I suspect the citation may be from our own KC-135 article. However, this was a KC-135, not a Looking Glass aircraft. Buckshot06 (talk) 09:00, 24 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Base closing?[edit]

A recent addition says there is a threat of closing the base unless the Nebraska senator sides with Obama on a vote. Unfortunately the links are conservative blogs and the source is an unnamed senate aide. Closing this base would be a huge a deal, I would feel a lot better if we had a reliable mainstream source for it. Otherwise it should be removed. Americasroof (talk) 21:51, 15 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Why do you care about the political orientation of the source? The issue is the blog status — they're not reliable at any rate — but given the political orientation of mainstream media, there's no reason to complain about this source's political orientation and not others. Nyttend (talk) 00:17, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm, the Omaha World-Herald quotes Nelson to say that these are only rumors, and that there's no truth to them. Thus the problem with the blog idea in general. There's no reason to bother with mentioning false rumors, so I'll just remove the section. Nyttend (talk) 00:19, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for digging in. I have used "conservative" sources in other articles where the claim can be corroborated. My problem was that the article source was questionable (an unnamed aide) for such a major story. I would never have believed such a major event unless it appeared in the Omaha World-Herald. Further aggravating this was that it cited not the original claim (Michelle Malkin) but rather echoing blogs. For the record the disclaimer is at http://www.omaha.com/article/20091215/NEWS/712159842 Americasroof (talk) 12:21, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Major commands to which assigned section[edit]

Has 2 dates that were added over 10 years ago with "lui" as the month. I commented them out, and haven't been able to find the actual dates.
Quebec99 (talk) 11:05, 12 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Flooding[edit]

I see nothing on the flooding of the base. 76.188.102.69 (talk) 17:14, 2 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2020/08/07/after-massive-floods-offutt-looks-to-build-a-better-base/#:~:text=Flooding%20began%20to%20overwhelm%20Offutt%20on%20March%2015%2C,million%20gallons%20of%20water%20infested%20with%20raw%20sewage. God Bless America and the US Military 17:19, 2 January 2022 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by MajorJared29 (talk • contribs)

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