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2015-02-07 Terror Networks

US moves pilot-rescue aircraft closer to battlefields

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Posted by Fred 2015-02-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State

#1 "CSAR is hard!" - USAF General Barbie

Posted by Pappy 2015-02-07 09:04|| 2015-02-07 09:04|| Front Page Top

#2 "CSAR is hard..."

Even harder when you're cutting the CSAR budget to help pay for the damned F-35s.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2015-02-07 09:09|| 2015-02-07 09:09|| Front Page Top

#3 But it's so much easier to keep the aircraft nice and shiny if we keep them in, oh, Delaware.

Posted by ed in texas 2015-02-07 11:12|| 2015-02-07 11:12|| Front Page Top

#4 "Al Kasaeasbeh the only casualty so far" There will be few, if any, POWs released by IS. Ever. Start getting used to it.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-02-07 12:50|| 2015-02-07 12:50|| Front Page Top

#5 As our military is (once again) tied up by ROE, I would be inclined to place my faith more with potassium cyanide than The One.

Posted by Hupineger Glomomp0038 2015-02-07 13:16|| 2015-02-07 13:16|| Front Page Top

#6 To be fair, CSAR is difficult. My team lost an A-6 pilot we were in radio contact with, had a rescue-bird ETA 30 min and air cover hot inbound. The Iraqis showed up first. Still... bothers me.

But putting your CSAR assets hours away is criminal.

Posted by Pappy 2015-02-07 14:58|| 2015-02-07 14:58|| Front Page Top

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