[saganite]

Pilotless surveillance and attack aircraft are having a coming out party in this war. The military can’t get enough of them.

[Abathar]

Right now I think they should be flying a big surveillance pattern between Afghanistan and Iraq that happens to cover most of Iran also.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Gates needs to remember that the air force works for him. Stop asking, start ordering.

[Thrownatbirth]

We need the Air Force in theatre for their dining facilities.

[lp boonie]

You know what the difference is between the Coast Guard and the Air Force? The Coast Guard becomes part of the military during war.

[KarlInOhio]

If Congress were to tell the Air Force that “maybe the Army needs their own recon airplanes ... and ground attack airplanes ... and or course they’ll need their own fighter cover for those”, the Air Force would have an metal overcast over Iraq to stop any more such talk.

[patch789]

Iraq is a dangerous place.

manned US Air Force planes should stay away

[ASA Vet]

USAF Carrier

[Gamecock]

A Marine Platoon faces driving rain in the middle of a 20 mile road march. They cheer “This is good crap!”

A Navy SEAL team swims miles through cold, shark infested water and scream out “We love this crap!”

An Army SF A team plods up a mountain with no sleep for the last three days and sing out “We eat this crap up!!”

An AF pilot comes back to his BOQ after eating a steak at the O-Club, turns the AC down to 65 degrees and then discovers his cable is out. He moans “What kind of crap is this!?!”

[mad_as_he$$]

Well Secretary Gates., it is a bad or foolish leader that cannot get his underlings to do his bidding. I think you are just another sock puppet at the Pentagon. Try giving them a DIRECT order. If they do not follow it get some new underlings. Grow a pair geez.

[onedoug]

...getting the Air Force to send more surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft to Iraq and Afghanistan has been "like pulling teeth."

Getting them to? WTF?

[PurpleMan]

Maybe they should learn and perform their primary mission as opposed to the great stories of the last 6 months:

Report Finds Air Force Officers Steered Contract:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/17/AR2008041702248.html?hpid=moreheadlines

F-16 fires on SUV while training at Utah Test and Training Range:
http://www.f-16.net/news_article2825.html

US Mistakenly Ships Missile Parts to Taiwan:
http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-03-25-ustaiwan.cfm

Air Force Mistakenly Flies 6 Nuclear Warheads Over U.S.:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295797,00.html