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F-18 fighter jets from US aircraft carrier start patrolling over Kabul as US troops on the ground fire shots: Just 2,000 people reach half-empty US evacuation flights, of whom only 300 are actually American
Daily Mail ^ | 8-19-21 13:29 EDT | Jennifer Smith

Posted on 08/19/2021 11:01:29 AM PDT by Sequoyah101

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To: curious7
>So they’re incompetent and need to be 🔥d.

I have faith they'll get that justice in the next world, with Joe adjudicated there sooner than most. I have less faith in secular courts here. They seem disinclined to issue the 'LGBTQ'-phone or heavy duty hemp verdicts deserved.

21 posted on 08/19/2021 11:34:53 AM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Biden/Harris press events are called dodo ops.)
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To: JonPreston

We have no idea how many jihadi they are flying in do we? No papers, young men of military age. Of course our government does exactly as it wants, no accountability.
In whose imagination does a
C-17 hold 600 passengers? Max capacity with centerline seating pallets and wall seating is 188. Whose feeding this information? Check your sources.


22 posted on 08/19/2021 11:41:53 AM PDT by .44 Special (Taimid Buacharch)
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To: Sequoyah101
"Patrolling" is NOT what is needed!

We need ordinance on target, to clear a path to get Americans out!

23 posted on 08/19/2021 11:42:49 AM PDT by G Larry (Those destroying the Constitution must demonize those who would defend it.)
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To: Sequoyah101

Wouldn’t the taliban have had more experience with the A-10; thus be more willing to be agreeable?


24 posted on 08/19/2021 11:48:25 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: Sequoyah101

BidenCoup@ co. tell Americans to make their own way to the airport
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Through this

https://twitter.com/JeffSchogol/status/1428341641174265863?s=20

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So “ who” made it through that Taliban biometric data into the airport?

https://twitter.com/i/status/1428420406764085257

.

No, nothing fishy coupie happening here.

Spit


25 posted on 08/19/2021 11:54:42 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: Sequoyah101

Why aren’t the fighter jets flying out of Bagram?

Oh!
Never mind.


26 posted on 08/19/2021 12:02:57 PM PDT by oldbill
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To: Sequoyah101

The BBC feed shows ab Afgan pop star and her boyfriend (they looked to be early 20’s) were put on a flight.

I hope we’re saving all the YouTube influencers too.

These flights are the lifeboats from a modern day Titanic. It will be interesting to see who has the pull to get out and sadly, who doesn’t.


27 posted on 08/19/2021 12:09:21 PM PDT by Not_Who_U_Think
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To: Sequoyah101

Heard Trump had a special task force to address the evacuation and Biden scrubbed it. .


28 posted on 08/19/2021 12:21:44 PM PDT by wardamneagle (c)
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To: blueunicorn6

AND, keeping F18s in the air over Afghanistan is expensive in terms of fuel, aircraft operating hours and manpower.


29 posted on 08/19/2021 12:34:30 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Sequoyah101

They need to pack the planes with ppl, and then do the sorting at 30,000 feet! ALLEEEE A-K-k-b-aaa-r!


30 posted on 08/19/2021 12:51:24 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Sequoyah101

Now, that they have the planes at the airport, they don’t have the American passengers to fill them, nor will they anytime soon.


31 posted on 08/19/2021 1:23:18 PM PDT by chuckee
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To: GOPJ

Simple fact of the matter is there was little fighting after we took the troops out, Just Afghan army troops agreeing to put down their weapons and walk out of the village. The provinces were falling faster than the Taliban had ability to get to them. That was the logical 11 day scenario that they had to foresee 4 weeks before Kabul fell. No one was defending anything.That was the time, 3-4 weeks before Kabul fell, to get the Americans and translators out. Unfortunately, Biden and that idiot Milley left them out to dry as sacrificial lambs so as not to alarm the Afghan populace.


32 posted on 08/19/2021 1:34:00 PM PDT by chuckee
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To: blueunicorn6

So F18’s are flying all over the place with great abandonment but not one shoulder to air missile fired? Oh yeh I’ll bet its due the well disciplined Tallybon fighters. 🙄

BTW where are the Tallybon? Cause they sure aren’t on the cable news videos. I’m hard pressed to call 4-5 guys in a pickup an occupying force. 😆


33 posted on 08/19/2021 1:34:41 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Sequoyah101

The whole day goes by and not a single update to this story?

Not a thing by the us media?

No words. None at all.

This is not the country I grew up in or love anymore. It his gone to jackals.


34 posted on 08/19/2021 5:20:49 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: EEGator
“Has to be Pakistan.”

You're right. I have been watching US & Brit C17’s since this started on ADSB exchange.com coming out of Dubai. They then turning north to transit north through Pakistan.

Once they are a couple of hundred miles inside Paki airspace they turn their transponders off and go dark. Just today noticed a K135 tanker going north which means fighters.

Oddly I have seen Hungarian and Spanish C17’s in the evening (PDT) so we are getting help.

Also there is some occasional US traffic through Iran but not very much.

35 posted on 08/19/2021 6:33:15 PM PDT by Polynikes ( Hakkaa paalle)
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To: Polynikes

Correction: Make that Spanish A400 Airbus


36 posted on 08/19/2021 6:37:18 PM PDT by Polynikes ( Hakkaa paalle)
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