all of those places existed, and whiteman air force base is right in the middle of them. whiteman, it is the home of our b-2 bombers. on wednesday of last week, two of our b-2 bombers remember, we only have 20 in total, only 20 exist, but two of them last week, the spirit of pennsylvania and the spirit of georgia they re all named after states two b-2 bombers took off from whiteman air force base in missouri with full pay loads. 40,000 pounds of 500-pound bombs, and those two planes flew all the way across the world from missouri to libya. and when they got to libya, between them those two planes dropped about 100 500-pound bombs on two isis camps in the desert.
about the mission, quote, the rarely used b-2 stealth bomber carried out massive strikes against two isis camps in libya on wednesday in what was almost certainly the last combat mission specifically authorized by president barack obama. this is from military.com. published that on thursday, the last full day of the obama administration. but it turns out that b-2 stealth bomber run around the world and into libya, that might not have been the last combat mission ordered by president obama because those b-2s flew on wednesday. the next day on thursday, u.s. planes were flying a major series of strikes in syria. again, targeting isis. in this case targeting al qaeda. in this case they used a b-52 bomber and drones and the u.s. says it struck a long-standing militant training camp west of aleppo near the turkish border. so right up until the moment he left office on wednesday with those b-2 strikes, on thursday
again, targeting isis. in this case targeting al qaeda. in this case they used a b-52 bomber and drones and the u.s. says it struck a long-standing militant training camp west of aleppo near the turkish border. so right up until the moment he left office on wednesday with those b-2 strikes, on thursday in syria with the b-52, president obama up until the moment he left office he was ordering aggressive u.s. military strikes against al qaeda and isis targets in countries like libya and syria. and there are american pilots who are carrying out these strikes, but there are also ground forces, u.s. ground forces in all of these places. that s part of what makes these strikes possible. in iraq, in afghanistan, in libya, in syria. the weekend before last u.s. special operations troops in syria apparently did one of these super daring helicopter
just have two crew members. incredibly in the case of this crash, this fire ball, both of the crew members on board that b-2 survived. when the the plane started to crash, when its wing went down as it was trying to take off, the two crew members of that plane were able to eject out of the plane. thankfully they got out. they survived. thankfully also, the air force says there were no live bombs on board that b-2 bomber when it crashed. that of course could have been catastrophic given the fire ball, the impact you saw there. so that crash of that b-2 bomber, that was a big deal. for one thing, that crash was a billion dollar crash. billion with a b. each one of these planes costs well over $1 billion. think about that for a second. i mean just for perspective, you ve heard how they re going to cut the entire budget for the national endowment for the arts, got to slim down, can t afford it anymore. one of these planes is ten times the annual budget of the
the fifth time this plane has ever been used in combat was last week. this is whiteman air force base in missouri. if you look at it on the map, it is like geography ad library. whiteman is just south of number noster, just north of tight wad, just east of turtle springs and just west of dresden. all of those places existed, and whiteman air force base is right in the middle of them. whiteman, it is the home of our b-2 bombers. on wednesday of last week, two of our b-2 bombers remember, we only have 20 in total, only 20 exist, but two of them last week, the spirit of pennsylvania and the spirit of georgia they re all named after states two b-2 bombers took off from whiteman air force base in missouri with full pay loads.