microblog · @anon_airman_wife · civilian · 11 February 2026, 19:00
My husband is one of the 1,150.
You are both right and it does not help me. He is innocent AND it happened second AND he is still behind that fence AND nine French families are burying people.
There is no arrangement of those facts that lets anybody win this argument. I wish you would all stop trying to. I am so tired.
There are army trucks on the Brandon road going up to the base. Lots of them. Somebody at the shop said they have closed the gates from the outside. My kids went to school with their kids. This is not a place where this happens.
Breaking: British forces have requisitioned RAF Lakenheath, Mildenhall and Fairford. Around 1,150 US personnel have been disarmed and confined to base housing. Seventeen US aircraft seized.
The word being used is "internment," and it is the correct one. These are the armed forces of a state now in armed conflict with the host state, on the host state's territory. Eleven days ago they were allies with base passes. The law changed the moment the mi…
They have shut the gates from the outside. Twenty-two years those lads have been in my pub. There is a bloke called Marcus who taught my daughter to throw a football on the green out the back. He is behind a fence this morning and my army put him there. I have…
Everyone in this thread has an opinion about international law and I have an opinion about Marcus, who is 24, from Ohio, and who fixed my generator for free in the storm two winters ago. He is behind a fence this morning. That is all the law I have got in me t…
British sappers cut the barrier interlocks at Gate 2 and 1,150 American airmen are interned in their own base housing. Paris activates Article 42.7. A second Vanguard leaves Faslane in the dark.
The Prime Minister to the House of Commons: "American arms have shed British and French blood in an unprovoked, illegal act of war on sovereign allied territory. The alliance that stood for eighty years has been torn apart from Washington. We will defend this …
He is fine. He rang for ninety seconds on a landline and said he is fine and they are being correct with everyone. Our neighbour Sue brought a lasagne round at half seven this morning. She did not say anything about any of it. She just handed me the dish and s…