Posted on 05/27/2015 6:30:57 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
U.S. military pilots carrying out the air war against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria are voicing growing discontent over what they say are heavy-handed rules of engagement hindering them from striking targets.
They blame a bureaucracy that does not allow for quick decision-making. One Navy F-18 pilot who has flown missions against ISIS voiced his frustration to Fox News, saying: "There were times I had groups of ISIS fighters in my sights, but couldn't get clearance to engage.”
He added, “They probably killed innocent people and spread evil because of my inability to kill them. It was frustrating."
Sources close to the air war against ISIS told Fox News that strike missions take, on average, just under an hour, from a pilot requesting permission to strike an ISIS target to a weapon leaving the wing.
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Are they allowed to have live ammo?
Live ammo? Are you crazy? How insensitive can you be?
Blue ordnance ONLY!
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Obama will now have that F-18 pilot identified and silenced. He and his functionaries will be far more concerned with this than the latest ISIS atrocities.
Sounds just like LBJ and McNamara, do they ever learn?
More deaths on the heads of the lesser evil crowd.
...and without forward air controllers on the ground, we’re limited in finding significant targets to change the battle.
It’s nothing but a show to appease the public.
Tying US military pilots' hands in their fight against ISIS is just Obama giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
And still the GOP-controlled Congress does..........................
A10s should be easily able to keep the desert roads cleaned up.
Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius
Of course they learned. How to lose a war, get innocent brown christians killed and turn it into liberal votes.
I will bet you every single sortie has a JAG officer with final authority on weapons release.
MOZLUM IN THE WOODSHED IN CHARGE OF US ARMED FORCES
ENEMY WITHIN IN THE BLACK HOUSE
ISIS methodology is historically proven effective.
Faggot communist muslim as POTUS not so much.
In fact, the analogy with the current MISCREANTS IN DC to the fall of the Roman Empire with the USA is frightening.
There should not be a SINGLE ISIS HEADQUARTERS BUILDING , ARMORED VEHICLE, HEAVY WEAPON, OR GOAT HUMPER TROOP FORMATION still in existence.
The traitorous OBAMA ADMINISTRATION COMMITS TREASON!
THEY WEAKEN AND HOMOSEXUALIZE OUR MILITARY, AID AND ABETT OUR ENEMY, AND ATTACK OUR ALLIES.
These EVIL MONSTERS IN DC must be held accountable for their MONSTROUS DEEDS.
This is much worse. Those two clowns limited strategic targets for B-52s and strikes N of the DMZ, as well as limiting routing and requiring ICAO NOTAMS. This douche is restricting confirmed tactical targets
“Sounds just like LBJ and McNamara, do they ever learn?”
They are Democrats. So, no.
I would expect a quick discharge if this officer/pilot is identified. The Obmanation has been purging officers who believe in strategies leading to victory.
It is more likely that US military will be murdered
by the White Mosque weaponizing ISIS (his creation).
Why is the Islamic terroristophile allowed to remain
in the White Mosque without ANY documentation of himself?
Yet again, as in Vietnam, the president micro manages a war, changing ROE’s in the middle of a battle. My dad and an uncle would be livid when returning from a missed opportunities when a new ROE was called in while on a mission ...
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