I remember reading an article in the Wall Street Journal during the
Clinton years that I would like to be able to find again. The article
described the routine of pilots who were engaged in bombing missions
related to a military conflict in which the U.S. was then engaged. (It
might have been Kosovo, but I'm not certain.) What struck me about the
article at the time was that it said the pilots were actually flying
the missions from bases in the United States. A mission would take
about 40 hours, at the end of which they would be back in the United
States, taking their kids to soccer practice or out to Pizza Hut. The
reason I'm interested in finding the story is that it suggests
something about the nature of warfare during the 1990s, when
technology made it possible to participate in war without experiencing
its realities (a far cry from the way war is being experienced now by
soldiers on the ground in Iraq).

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find the article, and after a
conversation with a friend, I'm starting to wonder whether I'm even
remembing it accurately. I'd like some help finding it, or alternately
in simply documenting whether U.S. pilots were indeed engaged in
overseas bombing runs while continuing to live stateside with their
families.

Hello.

Here you go:

The Wall Street Journal, 04/19/1999, Page A1
"For These B-2 Pilots, Bombs Away Means Really Far, Far Away"
http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2000/national-reporting/works/b_2_pilots.html

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search strategy:
yugoslavia pilots "pizza hut"

I hope this helps.

Perfect! Exactly the article that I was looking for. (Now why couldn't
I just find it myself?)