[travlnmn41]

I'm a tech sergeant in the Air Force Reserve and I can't for the life of me understand the way we're fighting the war...with one hand tied behind our back, so as not to offend anyone. We've had total air superiority from Day One and yet we can't stop the a-holes from planting roadside bombs all over the place at night? And we're not bombing these a-holes "fleeing" to Syria? The skies should be full of fighters, bombers and manned and unmanned surveillance aircraft. I'm really disappointed in Air Force and DoD leadership.

[MikeA]

Amen. We're so afraid of pissing anyone off with "heavy handed tactics" that we're getting hamstringed, which is probably the intent of the media, the left wing and Europe's incessant carping to begin with. We've got an ear overly-tuned to European and American left wing public opinion and they eviscerated us over our "pummeling of Fallujah" as if going in to Fallujah would have even been necessary if there weren't terrorists who murdered 4 American security contractors turning the place into a mini-Taliban nation state. So now we're gun shy to make any major moves in Iraq. It's a damned shame. We should either tune out the noise from the American left wing seditionists and the Eurotrash fools and fight this war right or...well I don't want to mention the alternative.

[AmeriBrit]

If you really feel that strongly about our military having their hands tied,as 99.99% of us here do, e-mail, fax, write(snail mail) and telephone your congresscritters and any others you can get the addresses for and let them know how you feel. Also get any others in your unit that are as frustrated as you seem to be to do the same, and make a point in your regular daily routine to keep sending them your complaints. Hopefully one of them in DC is going to break loose from the pack and realize the natives are getting restless and demand they throw the rule book away and let the military conduct the war the way successful wars have been fought in the past

If your congresscritter replies with a 'Cut and Run' tactic, or any other cowards excuse, let them hear your wrath.

[Wiz]

It will take more time to develop more accurate sensor systems to detect hidden IEDs. Don't worry, there will be a role for the Air Force too. I have been doing my own research for years and have confidence its on the track. It only takes time to do all the research and testing with improvements from version 1, as well as time to manufacture each to reach all troops on the front line. The first few phases of SDLC does often take a lot of time, and somewhat irritating. It's the last few phase were direct impact is visible.

[musicman]

Here's a video of our guys and gals on the "night shift", taking care of some of those IED planting folks...

http://fromtheinside.us/multi-media/videos/apache_Kills.html

[T. Rustin Noone]

What makes you think that we are not deploying our air assets?