United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P

Re:United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P by philwelch on Friday August 05, 2011 @11:16PM (#2852841)

Not just into Afghanistan. A good chunk of the post-9/11 air patrols in North America were flown by allied aircraft.

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Re:United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P by njharman on Saturday August 06, 2011 @12:53AM (#2853061)

Citation, something, anything to back up such a stupendous claim.

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Re:United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P by philwelch on Saturday August 06, 2011 @05:04AM (#2853463)

Please see the CNN link posted by smallblacksun.

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Re:United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P by georgieporgie on Saturday August 06, 2011 @02:40PM (#2854574)

He said, "A good chunk of the post-9/11 air patrols in North America were flown by allied aircraft."

The article says:

" Five NATO planes have arrived at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma"

and:

"Most of the United States' 30 AWACS, based at Tinker, have been flying around-the-clock surveillance of U.S. airspace..."

In my opinion, the phrase, "a good chunk of" is dubious. In a few minutes of Googling, I could find no indication of how many missions (if any) those NATO planes flew.

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Re:United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P by cperciva on Saturday August 06, 2011 @12:55AM (#2853065)

Allied, yes -- but that was NORAD, not NATO.

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Re:United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P by smallblacksun on Saturday August 06, 2011 @03:49AM (#2853359)

[NATO deployed AWACS](http://edition.cnn.com/2001/US/10/12/ret.nato.awacs/index.ht...) in the US after 9/11.

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