Fighter pilots on routine patrol got call to bomb (Zarqawi strike)

www.heraldnet.com ^ | Friday, June 9, 2006

[Names Ash Housewares]

"The first 500-pound laser-guided bomb slammed into the safe house at 6:15 p.m. Wednesday Baghdad time. The pilots doubled back and decided not to take any chances. They dropped a second Boeing-built, satellite-guided 500-pound GBU-38 bomb "to ensure the target set was serviced appropriately," one Air Force general said dryly."

[Names Ash Housewares]

Just gotta LOVE the military speak, it's almost poetry to me!

"to ensure the target set was serviced appropriately,"

[Cinnamon]

"to ensure the target set was serviced appropriately,"
beautiful choice of words. I love the military

[PeteB570]

Sometimes just a routine patrol and sometimes "POW, RIGHT IN THE KISSER."

[kms61]

"drily" implies a certain sense of irony. I don't think it was said with irony. These guys really talk like that.

[sachem longrifle]

here's to our flyboys

[The Blitherer]

LOVE the military!

[Dog]

Fyi..

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Dry usually means without emotion. Someone with a dry sense of humor doesn't telegraph what they are saying with smiling or laughter, they just say it.

[Spruce]

If I were one of the pilots, I'd get a tattoo to commemorate the deed.

[Sir Gawain]

And he still lived through both blasts...

[RadioAstronomer]

I realize the odds are hugely against it but I hope this is a friend of mine. He is currently a 16 pilot in Iraq.

[r9etb]

satellite-guided 500-pound GBU-38 bomb

Which makes it a JDAM. Earlier reports had the attack being conducted with laser-guided bombs. Boeing successfully tested a laser/JDAM combination back in Feb, 2005 -- perhaps these have since been fielded, and were used in this attack?

[Abigail Adams]

Whoever it is, someone give that guy a cigar!

[johnny7]

Ordinance was applied... liberally.

[Lokibob]

Zarqawis last words were "What is that whistling sound?"

[Lokibob]

On the Zarqawi strike:

"the U.S. unveiled their new sex bomb. Zarqawi was heard to say "Look at the freaking bombs"

[Dumpster Baby]

Double Tap.

[A CA Guy]

Could be the second one is what got Zarqawi.

He could have been below ground, came up to see what happened and got hit with the second one.

[The South Texan]

I bet Zarqawi IS NOT being "serviced" by those virgins like he was told by the Prophet that he would be.

[lesser_satan]

He could get Z-man's face tattooed on the bottom of his foot or his ass.