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- [Narrator] The B-52 Stratofortress

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has flown the world skies since 1955,

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assuring the United States' ability

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to strike globally, anywhere, anytime.

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For 65 years, the men and
women who fly and maintain it

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have done their part
ensuring global security.

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Airmen from the Fifth Bomb Wing

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deployed to RAF Fairford England

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tasked with sending B-52s

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over the skies of Europe and beyond.

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(plane engines wooshing)

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This is Bomber Task Force Europe.

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- So the main goal of our
squadron out here right now

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is to basically reassure our allies

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that we're still committed,

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our NATO allies that we're committed to

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making sure that we have
our interoperability

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and that we're able to support
them if the time comes.

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Maintenance out here has been awesome.

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- The maintenance and
the flying operations

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have been my absolute easiest
part out here, bar none.

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(upbeat music)

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So by coming to the forward
operation location of Fairford,

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we're able to get closer to the fight.

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We're able to project power

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from within our ally's
borders and perimeter.

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We're that much closer.

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We take off and we can hold
targets at risks immediately.

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The other part about
working out of Fairford

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is that simultaneously we have B-1s

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that are working out of Guam.

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And then we have bombers at
our home station as well.

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So we can generate conventional firepower

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from across the globe basically,
is what you end up having

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by putting us in these
different locations.

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(upbeat music)

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Right, it's incredibly
important to do this now.

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While things have been shutting down

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and locking down and everything else,

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what we've done, is we've proven that,

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despite everything else going on,

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we can project this power, we are here.

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So it's not only that we are going

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to be here for our allies,

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it's that we are here for our allies.

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We've reached over 1.5 billion views

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on articles that have been generated

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from the missions that
we've done out here.

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The entire world is watching

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and they see that we can do this.

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(upbeat music)

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The United States has the only

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strategic bomber capability in all of NATO

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and across our partners as well.

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So I talk about allies and partners.

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Allies are those that we
have an actual treaty with

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that we are going to
come to the defense of.

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Partners are people
that we're working with.

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One of the amazing parts of this mission

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has been to work with the Ukrainians.

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So that is a partner nation.

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We do not have a defense
agreement with them.

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But we have shown them,
in a time where Russia

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has aggressed into their
borders, for the Jordans as well,

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that we are here for them.

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So I got to fly mission the other day,

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I had a couple of MiG-29s and
C-27s come up off the wing.

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They welcomed us, they
said, welcome to Ukraine.

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They're they're happy to have us there.

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It's amazing partnership building

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that we're doing right now.

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- [Narrator] From the
coast of North Africa

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to the East Siberian Sea,

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the Bomber Task Force
highlighted the US ability

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to conduct deliberate, unpredictable,

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and steadfast strategic
operations across the globe,

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at the time in place of our choosing.

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This is Bomber Task Force Europe.

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(upbeat music)