US sources report, that the U.S. Air Force strategic bombers are being withdrawn from a military base on the island of Guam. According to the latest data, five Stratofortress B-52H left the military base the other day.
This could be considered standard procedure, if, what happened with 2004 of the year, other strategic bombers landed at the airbase as part of the “rotation”. But, reportedly, for the first time 16 there has been no rotation for years. Places, which were stationed at the US Air Force base on Guam, left empty.
This fact was called in the American media “a likely refusal by the command to the mission of a permanent military presence of strategic bombers”. And such information in itself aroused caution among American experts..
According to recent reports, five US strategic bombers 16 April returned to the permanent airfield, located in North Dakota. This is Minot Air Force Base.
US Strategic Command spokesman Keith Atanasoff commented on the situation somewhat evasively. According to him, “permanent place of deployment is the territory of the United States”. Recall, that Guam is not such a territory de jure.
Atanasoff:
When it is necessary, we are moving to the approach of using overseas territories. On Guam, bombers will continue to operate according to our choice and program.
What are the parameters of this program, the press officer did not say.
US Air Force bases on the island of Guam are typically used for “patrolling” over the waters of the Pacific and Indian oceans, with approaches to the air borders of North Korea and China.
