I was laid off today after 11+ yrs at the Omaha World-Herald & 42 yrs as a reporter. No regrets, but I'll miss my great colleagues!

Last spring, Omaha experienced its worst tornadoes in 50 years. This is a bad time to be cutting our weather forecasters.

Trailing along behind Fist flight (with no association), is the TC-135W, 62-4129, inbound for PHNL. -129 has had an interesting week. They went to MacDill AFB March 25th (different). Then, up to Barksdale for the airshow where they impersonated an RC-135 while on static

Definitely living the dream here. Could be worse!

USAF RC-135V Rivet Joint currently up southern New Mexico WARHK46 64-14846 Also up earlier today same area RC-135V WARHK41 64-14841

I didn't get a chance to write about this before I left. 55th Wing is billing this as the largest exercise in its history. Usually it's USSTRATCOM involved in the big exercises at Offut.

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Rivet Joint 62-4135 is outbound from Kadena headed toward the East China Sea or maybe the DMZ. It's been ~ a month since they headed to Korea. China has been getting all the love..... MLAT track is a little wonky, as is typical in this area, it's outbound.

Did not know a Titanic survivor wound up in Wahoo, Nebraska.

A pair of E-4B NAOC 747's active this evening. 74-0787 (near St. Louis) is headed to Robins AFB for standby alert duty. 73-1677 is up on a second possible check flight today. The first one only went off for less than an hour. It had not flown for 10 days.

We had an interesting evening here in Omaha.

Constant Phoenix 64-14831 as Cobra-31 is out collecting air samples from Illinois to Texas. This route was previously flown in August of 2022, and May of 2024. Collectively, these results are used to establish the "normal" or "baseline" readings for airborne nuclear particles

Big weather evacuation from Offutt ahead of tonight's expected storms. This is standard practice since the June 2017 tornado that hit apron and hangars.

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Cobra Ball 61-2662 as Cobra-62 is outbound from Offutt and appears to be headed for an OCONUS deployment. No indications yet if it will head to Kadena to relieve 62-4128, or if it will stop at Elmendorf for operations against the Kura Impact Range. Odds are on the former, to

Oh yeah, both Rivet Joints deployed to Al Udeid have launched in rapid succession. These are fun days.....

I can't recall the last time a Rivet Joint was forced to fly around Europe while on a routine repositioning flight. Strange not to have clearance for the airspace.

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Rivet Joint 62-4130 rotating back to Offutt after finishing up participation in Talisman Sabre 2025. Stop and a RON at Hawaii. It's terrible when the jet breaks down here. Someone slip the crew chief a C note....