My roommate from college. Maj Ted A Morris USAF Ret sent me picture of the first B-52 going to Afghanistan. Ted was there under government contract and has a whole site dedicated to Diego Garcia
http://www.zianet.com/tedmorris/dg/
Very extensive, lots of Military pics
If any of you know Ted you know he is a character!
for the anniversary on Ted's face book page Ted states:
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"Ted Morris 96 months ago today the first bombers launched against al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. Here's a picture of the very first one (taxing out on Diego Garcia). The U.S. was in WWII for 44 months. Why so long in Afghanistan? Not because ...the enemy is smarter or better equipped. It's because neither Bush nor Obama had/have the cojones to do the brutal things needed to defeat a dedicated enemy, occupy their country and reorder their society by force (the way we did Germany and Japan). Neither does NATO nor, most importantly, the American people. So why are we still there? Your buddy, Ted "Bomb the Rubble" Morris."