B-1B Lancer “Bad to the Bone” Art by Willie Jones. This image is copyrighted and is the property of Willie Jones Jr. and is available only to members of the Armed Forces and Military organizations. On Oct. 1, 1993, the 7th was inactivated at Carswell AFB and activated at Dyess AFB, integrating the operations of the B-1B and C-130. The diverse 7th Wing was born and for the next three and half years, operated around the globe. The wing was reorganized on April 1, 1997, as the 7th Bomb Wing and gave operational control of the C-130s to the Air Mobility Command. Now, the 7th BW is the premier operational B-1B unit in the U.S. Air Force. It has the capability to project lethal airpower anywhere in the world at anytime. The B-1 demonstrated its lethality on Dec. 18, 1998, while assigned to the 28th Air Expeditionary Bomb Group. During Operation DESERT FOX, a Dyess B-1 teamed with a B-1 from Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., to bomb Iraqi Republican Guard barracks at Al-Kut, Iraq, with 500-pound MK-82 bombs. This was the first ever-combat bomb drop of the B-1. This mission displayed the destructive firepower of the B-1 and echoed 7th Bomb Wing the battle cry "MORS AB ALTO," Latin for Death From Above.
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