How many of those hours were spent actually delivering ordance on target? NONE
During those 325 hours how many USAF aircraft were lost to direct enemy action? NONE
If you read her history it says she first flew into combat during Desert Storm. What combat? The Iraqi Air Force NEVER engaged us in combat. What few planes they had flew straight out of Iraqi airspace. Desert Sheild/Storm was a turkey shoot. And, when she deployed to Afganistan, what kind of aircraft did she encounter? What kind of SAMs, other than ragheads throwing rocks at her? The Air Force has basically had no mission in Enduring Freedom, except medivac and cargo.
McSally commded, and flew in an
A-10 Warthog squadron.
Martha didn’t fly in Desert Storm. She deployed to Kuwait in 1995, after the war, and flew less than 100 hours patrolling the peaceful skies of Iraq. To put it in perspective, I was also flying then, in 111s, and once flew 90 hours in 17 days. That should give an idea of how little she did in her “first combat tour”. It wasn’t until a few years later that the Iraqis started shooting at us on patrol.
So the rest of her “combat time” was flying over Afghanistan in 2004, unopposed. She never faced organized AAA, never faced a SAM, and never faced an enemy air force. She lived and worked out of a base with 10,000 Americans. She could eat pizza every night if she wished, or Baskin-Robbins ice cream. She had private quarters.