A-10 Pilots Discuss ISIS Operations

GrundleStiltzkin

‘It’s a War': A Look at How the US and Its Allies Are Fighting ISIS

There is a humble lethality in the way the A-10 pilots talk about killing. They chuckle and eat ice cream for dessert as they tell stories about panic-stricken ISIS fighters accidentally running toward the distinctive sound of the A-10’s 30-mm Gatling cannons, or of an ISIS fighter who did a swan dive to his death off a cliff while trying to escape an A-10 attack.

“When I saw that, I just radioed: ‘He’s dead,’” one pilot, an Air Force major, dryly explained.

“They say they love death more than we love life,” another pilot, a captain, said. “But they always flee when we attack. I’ve never seen one not try to get away.”

Guess I'm checked out on the news these days, I didn't realize we had that much force deployed in Syria.

RaceBannon

GrundleStiltzkin said:

‘It’s a War': A Look at How the US and Its Allies Are Fighting ISIS

There is a humble lethality in the way the A-10 pilots talk about killing. They chuckle and eat ice cream for dessert as they tell stories about panic-stricken ISIS fighters accidentally running toward the distinctive sound of the A-10’s 30-mm Gatling cannons, or of an ISIS fighter who did a swan dive to his death off a cliff while trying to escape an A-10 attack.

“When I saw that, I just radioed: ‘He’s dead,’” one pilot, an Air Force major, dryly explained.

“They say they love death more than we love life,” another pilot, a captain, said. “But they always flee when we attack. I’ve never seen one not try to get away.”

Guess I'm checked out on the news these days, I didn't realize we had that much force deployed in Syria.

You haven't seen the massive anti war protests and NO Blood for Oil signs filling the streets?

Me neither

2001400ex

Fox news wants you to think Obama is doing nothing to fight ISIS.

HTH

GrundleStiltzkin

2001400ex said:

Fox news wants you to think Obama is doing nothing to fight ISIS.

HTH

pawz

2001400ex said:

Fox news wants you to think Obama is doing nothing to fight ISIS.

HTH

I like to fire all my top Generals that are actually fighting ISIS and say I'm fighting ISIS. I do that.

BennyBeaver

An engagement with a JV opponent doesn't get the "war" label. It gets the "Operation" label. As in Operation Inherent Resolve (feel free to look up those words at dictionary.com, I had to) which is killing about 1,000 JV scrubs a month.

This is just an excuse to keep our well oil machine tuned up, it's not a "war."

2001400ex

pawz said:

2001400ex said:

Fox news wants you to think Obama is doing nothing to fight ISIS.

HTH

I like to fire all my top Generals that are actually fighting ISIS and say I'm fighting ISIS. I do that.

Link?

sarktastic

TheGlove said:

An engagement with a JV opponent doesn't get the "war" label. It gets the "Operation" label. As in Operation Incoherent Resolve (feel free to look up those words at dictionary.com, I had to) which is killing about 1,000 JV scrubs a month.

This is just an excuse to keep our well oil machine tuned up, it's not a "war."

why would they name it that?