This is a FACTUALLY incorrect report. Only one command has stood down today. Air Combat Command has stopped flight operations to conduct a saftey review as related to the incident involving movement of nuclear warheads from Minot to Barksdale AFBs.

ALL alert aircraft along with NORAD and the rest of the USAF is in fact, conducting flight operations.

90% of all alert aircraft are operated by the Air National Guard and/or the Reserves. They ARE ALL FLYING.

Your country is being kept safe.

And you get your information from?

Personally, i would hardly feel safe if my country was being defended by the US Airforce, given their apparent propensity for flying nukes over your heads and numerous friendly fire incidents

And seriously now, Who is going to fly across one of the two oceans and attack the states? Hmmm? This isn't freaking WWII. You aren't under constant attack by everyone. Stop spreading the paranoia that promotes apathy.

My apologies....I re-read the initial article. As it is written, it is indeed correct. My confusion stems from other articles that have stated the entire USAF was standing down leaving no defenses in place today.....
Again, my mistake.

While apparently, I know it all, I obviously cannot read.

Aaaactualy. I'm canadian.

I never claimed that any country had zero aircraft on alert. I just fail to see the ruddy point of keeping the world in a state of cold war perpetually like this. Especially America and Canada. We're bordered by the two largest bodies of water on the planet on each side, a frozen wasteland above us, and a 3rd world tourist trap to the south.

I think, that by the time a mysterious agressor managed to get a plane halfway across one of these, we would know about it and the world would be beginning the process of sanctions and diplomatic response.

We do not live in a cold war situation, prior to ICBM's being able to cross the globe. We do not live in a world where the worlds superpowers are continually trying to kill one another off.

If you honestly are going to believe that any of the "really" threatening countries could bomb North America from across half the world...

I found it hard to belive that we wouldnt have ANY fighter aircraft in the air that day as i read in a thread here.ESPECIALLY after announcing a stand-down!

On her way home from work just now @ 5pm, my wife just called and said 3 groups of 3 fighter jets just buzzed overhead, rather low, an she said these were 3 definate groups of 3, not the same three repeating. We live in pittsbrugh PA, and i am not aware of any air show this weekend, but we do have a military air field near by, but we never get that much fighter jet activity here.