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**HawksBurnDown** · 08-29-2012, 10:32 PM

Actually we were on a post cold war footing. During the cold war we would have had armed fighters in the air or ready to scramble at a moments notice 24/7. After the cold war air defense became lax.

I bet they've always got armed fighters ready to scramble now. I live about 12 miles east of an Air National Guard base and after 9/11 I noticed at least a tenfold increase in the number of fighter jets in the air. Before it was relatively uncommon to see one. Nowadays I see and hear them all the time.

08-29-2012, 10:32 PM	#36
HawksBurnDown Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 695 Senior Member	Actually we were on a post cold war footing. During the cold war we would have had armed fighters in the air or ready to scramble at a moments notice 24/7. After the cold war air defense became lax. I bet they've always got armed fighters ready to scramble now. I live about 12 miles east of an Air National Guard base and after 9/11 I noticed at least a tenfold increase in the number of fighter jets in the air. Before it was relatively uncommon to see one. Nowadays I see and hear them all the time.
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