The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be

wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain

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This is John Batchelor, a conversation with General Blaine Holt,

United States Air Force, retired, about a report that two E3-century aircraft, AWACs, have moved from Oklahoma into the U.S. Central Command.

This, in addition to other assets on-scene or moving around, such as B-2 bombers parked outside at the Diego Garcia Air Base in the Indian Ocean.

More of this later, but Blaine now, comments on what an E3 century can do and why you would need it in a combat theater.

What combat theater?

The Houthis?

No.

The suggestion is this has to do with the suspect nuclear weapon program at Iran. More of this tonight. Blaine Hull. One on station, one off, one in rest,

and then they swap off. And if we get very busy with this, then you'll see even more come on into

the theater.

So for round the clock ops, you've got to start with two, and one's always a sitting maintenance spare.

But it's a very, very effective aircraft with the folks on board in deconflicting traffic, combat traffic.

The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front.

Hmm, how naughty.

I wonder what I'll be wearing or taking off.

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