A look back at Fairchild and the Mt. St. Helens eruption
There's not much that can bring a Strategic Air Command bomber and tanker base to its knees and as close to a shutdown as possible.
Except that is for the unknown fury of Mother Nature's wrath. That's not, mind you with cold, snow, ice or other weather, but a volcano that effectively shut down Fairchild Air Force Base's mission for weeks.
The devastating eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980 would have been the prefect time for any rogues and other bad guys to take advantage.
The B-52s, as well as the base's KC-135 tankers of the of the U.S. Air Force's 92nd bomb and refueling wing were grounded for days an days by an acrid dump of ash from and explosion out of the depths of the earth.
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