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Guam is an American territory, right? So I guess that Caltex is right in it being a training mission. The thing is, to get the most out of these high-tech, expensive machines, you have to have the pilots practice with them a lot. If you do get in a war with another modern, major power, and have to use these things, it won't do much good that they're so powerful if they get shot down by some bob-standard fighter whose pilot was far better than the B-52's, who wasn't used to flying that plane.
There's no point having these things if you don't practice with them, you've already wasted the money.
The fact that they're so horrifically expensive is more an issue about whether to buy them in the first place.
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