page_title: 2nd Bomb Wing
section_title: "Wise Guy" restoration
hierarchical_section_title: 2nd Bomb Wing / "Wise Guy" restoration
caption_attribution_description: English: Col. Robert Burgess, 307th Operations Group commander, gives a thumbs up after flying a B-52 Stratofortress "Wise Guy," to Barksdale Air Force Base, La., May 14, 2019.
context_page_description: The 2d Bomb Wing is a United States Air Force unit assigned to the Air Force Global Strike Command and the Eighth Air Force. It is stationed at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana. The wing is also the host unit at Barksdale. The wing was assigned to the Air Force Global Strike Command in February 2010 as part of the reassignment of Eighth Air Force.
  The 2 BW is one of only two B-52H Stratofortress wings in the United States Air Force, the other being the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota.
  Its 2d Operations Group is the oldest bomb group of the Air Force, having fought on the Western Front as the 1st Day Bombardment Group during World War I, entering combat on 12 September 1918. After the war, it participated in Brigadier General Billy Mitchell's 1921 off-shore bombing test. Active for over 60 years, the 2 BW was a component wing of Strategic Air Command's heavy bomber deterrent force throughout the Cold War.
  The 2d Bomb Wing is commanded by Colonel Michael A. Miller. The Command Chief Master Sergeant is Joshua W. Swanger.
context_section_description: "Wise Guy" 60-034 is the second B-52 to be regenerated from the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona. On Tuesday 14 May 2019 "Wise Guy" took to the skies once again with Col. Robert Burgess, CO of the 307th Operations Group, 307th Bomb Wing, flew the bomber back to Barksdale AFB. "Wise Guy" 60-034 had served with the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot AFB and was flown to the Bone Yard in 2008.
  It is scheduled to go for a full overhaul at the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma in February 2020. The B-52 will serve as a replacement for another one of Barkdale's 2nd Bomb Wing B-52H bombers that was destroyed in an accident at Anderson AFB, Guam on 19 May 2016.
caption: Col. Robert Burgess, 307th Operations Group commander, gives a thumbs up after flying B-52H Stratofortress "Wise Guy," to Barksdale Air Force Base, La., 14 May 2019.
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