Veterans Corner

Commentary by John Kearns, USCG Ret., chiefkearns@gmail.com

BALLOONS EVERYWHERE!

As of this writing, while the Superbowl was being played, another unidentified foreign object breached US Air Space and was shot down over Lake Huron. That makes four, and there is still no explanation of who, what, or why.

It does not surprise that the same big brass is in charge of this, who was in command of the Afghanistan withdrawal and is providing the nation with no answers. Is this something new? Or has this been going on for a while?

We know one is from China, and it was a highly sophisticated spy balloon. The Lake Heron balloon is puzzling; If it was shot down and landed on an ice floe when I worked in the Great Lakes, we could always rescue fishermen stuck on the ice. There is a