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originally posted by: FlySolo
a reply to: LogicalGraphitti
Well, a simple deduction tells you Toyota isn't standard military issue. But that helicopter sure is. So, what does your deductive reasoning tell you?
originally posted by: 727Sky
a reply to: FlySolo
Yep I had a letter from an A-10 Pilot who said the convoys and roads were open for ISIS and he could not get clearance to fire... Just send nice videos back to home base..
He was some kinda pissed and thought the whole thing was a farce.
I do not condone our nations foreign policies especially when nothing but lies and half truths are used to support their cause.. Nothing I can do about it unfortunately.
originally posted by: Forensick
originally posted by: 727Sky
a reply to: FlySolo
Yep I had a letter from an A-10 Pilot who said the convoys and roads were open for ISIS and he could not get clearance to fire... Just send nice videos back to home base..
He was some kinda pissed and thought the whole thing was a farce.
I do not condone our nations foreign policies especially when nothing but lies and half truths are used to support their cause.. Nothing I can do about it unfortunately.
To be honest, if I were in charge of the RoE I would deny it too, its far too easy to brass up a "friendly" column. Just see the "friendly fire" incidents in GW1 & 2. Better telling them to report movement than kill them and then kill all the Toyotas and troops you had just spent a million dollars on training.
Imagine the stupidity of America spending millions on Toyotas and training only to have a trigger happy pilot grease them because we cant tell the difference of ISIS and FSA from 12000ft...can you imagine it? I will explain it again if you cant.
I basically do not have any decision making authority in my cockpit. It sucks. In most cases, unless a general officer can look at a video picture from a UAV, over a satellite link, I cannot get authority to engage. I've spent many hours, staring through a targeting pod screen in my own cockpit, watching ISIS #heads perpetrate their acts until my eyes bleed, without being able to do anything about it. The institutional fear of making a mistake, that has crept into the central mindset of the military leadership, is endemic. We have not taken the fight to these guys. We haven't targeted their centers of gravity in Raqqa. All the roads between Syria and Iraq are still intact with trucks flowing freely. The other night I watched a couple hundred small tanker trucks lined up at an oilfield in ISIS-held northeast Syria, presumably filling up with oil traded on the black market, go unfettered. It's not uncommon to wait several hours overhead a suspected target for someone to make a decision to engage or not. It feels like we are simply using the constructs build up in Afghanistan, which was a very limited fight, in the same way here against ISIS, which is a much more sophisticated and numerically greater foe. It's embarrassing.
originally posted by: dreamingawake
originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: FlySolo
Just freakin amazing how little attention this attracted here. Talk about smoking guns.
ATS?
Crickets…
Simple because it just can't be true! Those are really the good guys.
originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: FlySolo
Just freakin amazing how little attention this attracted here. Talk about smoking guns.
ATS?
Crickets…
It does look highly suspicious,but we have no real way of knowing who s who and what is what.....certainly at face value it looks like an apache and as it was not attacking so we can assume it was protecting,
In saying that if that was not ISIS in those trucks i would hazard a guess there soon will,maybe they bought them on ebay and that is just the delivery
originally posted by: awareness10
a reply to: intrptr
Ok yes, it is a media circus. There is no honesty left in media and there are very few good news sources left who actually have a conscience, and tell the truth.
The entire thing is a complete disaster, I keep seeing it all falling fast like a house of cards very soon.