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I don’t know that that is a good indicator. Look at how the Iraqis WE train are. Nothing to write home about.

Ground support aircraft would have to survive in an intense ADA environment and under contested skies. It wouldn’t be like today where the worst that happens is some savage has an SA-14 to shoot at you that he doesn’t really know how to use.

Mind you, hovering around savages in RPG or AK-47 range is not a good idea either as they found out in Somalia.

I don’t just play this scenario - I lived and trained for it with 11 ACR in Fulda and Bad Kissingen back in the 80’s.

51 posted on 04/01/2012 3:53:56 PM PDT by Little Ray (FOR the best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)

I respect your service. How willing would any army be to fight for a system that oppresses them and views their lives as so much cannon fodder?

52 posted on 04/01/2012 7:02:30 PM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)

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