Operation Midnight Hammer started with B2 bombers in Missouri

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Operation Midnight Hammer started with B2 bombers in Missouri   Rep. Mark Alford, R-Mo., joins 'Fox & Friends' to spotlight Whiteman Air Force Base in his district, where the B2 bombers that struck Iran are based. #foxnews #news #usa #us #world #donaldtrump #trump #iran #israel #middleeast #war #nuclear #weapon #ayatollah #khamenei #netanyahu #breakingnews #live #media #telaviv #pakistan #primetime #military #army #navy #washington #qatar   Fox News is the ultimate source of Top Stories, News Updates, Breaking news, Top headlines, Investigative reports, Human interest stories, Weather updates, Natural disaster coverage, Crime reports, Editorial opinions, Fact-checking articles, Global events, global news, global news, global news updates, latest news, latest updates, news updates, and world news updates.   Stay informed with the latest headlines and in-depth coverage from around the world — follow Global News Updates for real-time news you can trust. Don’t miss a story — hit follow now!   GLOBAL NEWS   #IranIsraelConflict #MiddleEastTensions #IranIsraelWar #BreakingNews #Geopolitics #foxnews #skynews #cnn #MiddleEastCrisis #WarInIranIsrael #InternationalNews #MiddleEastConflict #GlobalSecurity #BreakingNewsUpdate #ConflictAnalysis #IranNews #IsraelNews #WarUpdates #MiddleEastPolitics #SecuritySituation #IranIsraelRelations #WarNews #RegionalTensions #globalnews #newschannel #insights #updates

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00:00All right, we are live right now at Whiteman Air Force Base, just about 90 minutes to the

00:07south and to the east of Kansas City. And the reason I am here this morning is because the

00:12whole world is talking about Operation Midnight Hammer. When seven stealth bombers, and I am

00:20looking at the entire arsenal of stealth bombers, they're just over there in the restricted area

00:26here at Whiteman, when they took off from Whiteman, flew to Iran, dropped their payloads, and came

00:32back home. This area is so filled with pride for what the men and women of the 509 do, and nobody

00:40is more proud than Congressman Mark Alford. He represents this congressional district. He's a

00:45Republican, and it's great to be here. And as I said, everybody's so proud of what happens here.

00:52Steve, I'm extremely proud of the men and women here, not just the pilots, but the maintainers,

00:58the men and women who refueled these jets. Imagine being in a jet for 36 hours to go over to strike

01:04Iran, come back. It was all done with precision under the direction of President Donald J. Trump,

01:10and I'm extremely excited that we have decapitated the nuclear capabilities of Iran.

01:15And this is the Air Force, the control tower, where they do all the controlling. It's pretty cool to

01:22have the entire world collection of B-2s right here. And you were telling me a story. Back in

01:29the day, you heard Ronald Reagan talk about some magic airplane. That's right. I used to be a

01:34television reporter and anchor. My first job in Waco, Texas. Ronald Reagan came there in 1988 and

01:39talked about this plane that we were building that no one could see. I thought, what in the crazy

01:43thing are you talking about? And here I am, the fourth congressional district representative

01:47who gets to represent this great base, not just the B-2, but also the programs out here, the A-10

01:54that's, we're losing actually that platform. We're trying to find a replacement mission,

01:58the MQ-9 Reaper, Black Hawk helicopters. This base is a jewel of the Department of Defense,

02:05and I get to represent. I'm very honored. Yeah. And this particular airplane is so specific. It's

02:12a, you know, the way they used it, they had two 15-ton bombs in it. And they flew it the entire way

02:19over, pushed the button, dropped the bombs, and came back home. What they do is, it's almost superhuman,

02:25but they figured out how to do it. And they practice these drills all the time. And the B-2

02:31was built to carry nuclear weapons as well as conventional. This, of course, was a conventional

02:36weapon. The nuclear weapon that they carry is actually built not too far from here in South

02:41Kansas City, the non-nuclear components. It's married together with the nuclear components and

02:46then brought back here to put on the B-2. We are getting a new platform, and that's what I'm excited

02:51about. Until that happens, we are making sure that we have the funding to keep the B-2 lethal,

02:57capable, and ready. But we're getting the B-21 Raider that's being made in Palmdale, California.

03:02You know, originally the B-2, we were supposed to build 132 of them. Because the end of the Cold

03:07War, we only ended up building 21. Can you imagine what this world would be like if we had 100 of

03:13these stationed around the world? Sure. And, you know, the 509 bomb wing, which is what we're talking

03:19about right here, based here at Whiteman, so historic. Because these are the guys who dropped

03:25the original bomb on Hiroshima from the Enola Gay. They've got a facsimile as you drive into the base

03:33this morning. They know what they're doing, and they've been doing it for decades. They moved

03:37operations here. And talk a little bit about how the area embraces what goes on here.

03:44We are all invested in what they do here at Whiteman. I'm honored to represent actually two

03:50Department of Defense bases down in Pulaski County, not too far from us, is Fort Leonard Wood. We

03:55train more than 80,000 personnel. We're getting five new companies there. But this Whiteman Air Force

04:01Base is really a jewel. I talked about the B-21 platform. We are getting the second wave of those.

04:10We're going to build 100 initially, and we will get the second wave of those. Ellsworth Air Force

04:16Base gets the fourth wave, we the second, and then down at Dias in Texas. But this will be the center

04:21of excellence for that program under the leadership of Colonel Whitla, who just took over a couple of

04:26days ago. Colonel Keith Butler retired and went on to do some other things. But I'm excited to be a part

04:33of this and helped fund the security that we need to keep bad actors like Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin at

04:40bay, and of course the mullahs. Because ultimately, Congressman, when the going gets tough,

04:45the president goes to Whiteman. And that's why he came here, because he ordered a couple of days ago,

04:50Operation Midnight Hammer. It was hammer time. It was hammer time. And God bless America. God bless

04:57Donald J. Trump for trying to negotiate originally. The mullahs wouldn't have it. And he showed them

05:03what we're made of. Indeed. Congressman, thank you very much. Take care. So, Lawrence, it is all

05:08happening here at Whiteman Air Force Base, and we are so lucky to be on the base today. And they really

05:13rolled out the red carpet for us today. Super proud to be American today. Thanks, Steve. We'll check in

05:18with you later.

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