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2007-03-04 Iraq

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Posted by Fred 2007-03-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 400,000 hours in 2007
Damn!

365, 3 hr. sorties a day? we don't fight on the cheap. Spare parts must be a bear.

Posted by Shipman 2007-03-04 07:30|| 2007-03-04 07:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Ship,
The standard for air-to-mud units (F-16 and A-10) is 4.0 sorties/day, so at 16-18 aircraft per squadron you can imagine what we're capable of cranking out. For B-52, B-1, and B-2 units it's 1.0 - but when you consider that you're talking about 20 to 80 bombs per aircraft, you can see the difference.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2007-03-04 07:58|| 2007-03-04 07:58|| Front Page Top

#3 killed several insurgents with Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia????

The New Joke Times refuses to acknowledge we're killing by the thousands AQ in Iraq, the same AQ that brought down the Twin Towers in their very own neighborhood. So what indeed was the price you sold your soul for?

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-03-04 16:56|| 2007-03-04 16:56|| Front Page Top

#4 So what indeed was the price you sold your soul for?

stock futures....that isn't working out so well for them, is it?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-03-04 17:24|| 2007-03-04 17:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Procopius2k, the Iraqi branch of Al Qaeda calls itself "Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia" for some reason. Not that I'd argue about the New York Times having sold their collective soul, or denying bits of reality critically important for their readers to know about, but this isn't evidence of it.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-03-04 20:00|| 2007-03-04 20:00|| Front Page Top

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