They are there for what is called a ‘target-rich environment’.
In the IMAX movie “Fighter Pilot”, which is about Red Flag, they speak of pilots from US and other NATO countries. But if you watch early in the movie where there are the first scenes of pilots
getting ready for the first day’s activities, you will see one fighter with Israeli Air Force markings, although that is never mentioned.
I wonder if the Israelis are there and, if so, if they are flying with the UAE pilots.
The first day is pretty hairy with all those planes over unfamiliar (and crowded) airspace (my son flew in it a few years ago).
No kidding. Oboma needs a huge "crises" right now to distract from the failed stimulus package, record unemployment numbers, the coming economical crash, failed death care, and the exposing of who his Czars really are.
I'll bet he's praying his butt off to Allah right now for a big one.