There aren’t signigicant numbers US ground troops in Iraq. It seems obvious that the Apaches are going to be used to support Iraqi government forces, and possibly Kurdish forces. So what happens when an Apache is inevitably lost?
You are pointing out the obvious fallacy of the Obama strategy. He believes that you can conduct risk free warfare, destroying ISIS without any possibility of U.S. casualties. That’s nonsense and he has sent our troops on a fool’s errand.