{"id":16688,"date":"2021-11-15T23:20:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T23:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/11\/15\/b-1b-lancer-bombers-return-to-texas-from-european-deployment\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T20:26:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:26:46","slug":"b-1b-lancer-bombers-return-to-texas-from-european-deployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/your-air-force\/2021\/11\/15\/b-1b-lancer-bombers-return-to-texas-from-european-deployment\/","title":{"rendered":"B-1B Lancer bombers return to Texas from European deployment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Four B-1B Lancer bombers and nearly 200 airmen returned to Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, Monday after spending more than a month flying missions out of RAF Fairford in England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lancers, which are equipped to carry only conventional munitions, deployed as part of a routine bomber task force rotation through Europe. Bombers head overseas on short-notice tours as a display of power while training with American allies in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 9th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron partnered with other American forces from around the globe on rapid-response missions, known as agile combat employment. They are building a \u201ccohesive team, postured and ready, to respond to adversary aggression,\u201d Gen. Jeff Harrigian, the head of U.S. air operations in Europe and Africa, said in a release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dyess aircrews departed Europe as a tense situation between Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Poland is unfolding, prompting new European Union sanctions on Belarus and warnings from NATO.<\/p>\n\n\n\t