{"id":196728,"date":"2008-03-30T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-30T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/30\/the-unsinkable-buff\/"},"modified":"2008-03-30T11:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-30T16:49:00","slug":"the-unsinkable-buff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/30\/the-unsinkable-buff\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unsinkable BUFF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.govexec.com\/story_page.cfm?articleid=39626&amp;dcn=e_gvet\">USAF is looking to change its draw down on B-52s<\/a>, with 76, as opposed to 56.<\/p>\n<p>Their justification is that they want some of the B-52s dedicated to nuclear strike, as opposed to swapping squadrons in and out of the service, on the theory that they won&#8217;t do stupid stuff like sending detonators to Taiwan, or flying live missiles by mistake.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, the BUFF (Big Ugly Fat F&#038;^%er) is being tasked to pull the Air Force brass&#8217;s ass out of a fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the USAF is looking to change its draw down on B-52s, with 76, as opposed to 56. Their justification is that they want some of the B-52s dedicated to nuclear strike, as opposed to swapping squadrons in and out of the service, on the theory that they won&#8217;t do stupid stuff like &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1006,1044],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-military","category-nuclear-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}