If they went to Syria, why are Syrian jets and choppers not falling out of the sky like rain?
BTW, went to Barrankas National Cemetery yesterday and the entrance to Pensacola NAS was now configured with a single line maze style configuration to get in and not as radical but still one lane “managed” exit. Also, starting today, it will take two forms of ID to get onto the base.
I have never seen security this high since right after 911. Something is up.
We are far from done anywhere in the middle east with respect to SAMs (MANPADs). And there have been choppers shot down with them. Just not in the numbers you expect.
With respect to CONUS military installations, I find it rather wry that they expect the worst of terrorist action, yet their surrounding civilian populations (and government) are not so concerned. Terrorist havoc in this country has always heretofore been largely aimed at the civilians save one or two examples.
I find it absurdly and ghoulishly comical that these installations go through all the machinations of stopping legitimate interaction in and around its confines, only to completely disarm its trained inhabitants.