via The Daily Telegraph
The USAF doesn't and wouldn't do that. I make fun of the boys in blue but to even hint that they lack the professionalism to perform airdrops properly is pure insanity.
The 70 percent being dead? I have no idea. It sounds super inflated but I'm not there so I don't know.
This article is obviously a passion piece designed to pull on the heart strings. We shouldn't take the bait.
I was on board an Iraqi Army helicopter, and watched as hundreds of refugees ran towards it to receive one of the few deliveries of aid to make it to the mountain. The helicopter dropped water and food from its open gun bays to them as they waited below. General Ahmed Ithwany, who led the mission, told me: “It is death valley. Up to 70 per cent of them are dead.” Two American aid flights have also made it to the mountain, where they have dropped off more than 36,000 meals and 7,000 gallons of drinking water to help the refugees, and last night two RAF C-130 transport planes were also on the way. However, Iraqi officials said that much of the US aid had been “useless” because it was dropped from 15,000ft without parachutes and exploded on impact.Bullshit.
The USAF doesn't and wouldn't do that. I make fun of the boys in blue but to even hint that they lack the professionalism to perform airdrops properly is pure insanity.
The 70 percent being dead? I have no idea. It sounds super inflated but I'm not there so I don't know.
This article is obviously a passion piece designed to pull on the heart strings. We shouldn't take the bait.
I feel like this would of been a good mission for the K-Max helo the marine corps used, remote that thing in, have preds watch the landing site, drop and go.
ReplyDeletealso i call bullshit on the drops, i was more worried that the drops would in ISIS hands, but the AF knows its game on air drops
This is just an attempt at deceiving us. It's not atypical coming from the arabs, unfortunately.
DeleteCorrect, I have a mate working with the RAF supply cell in Cyprus. The USAF like the RAF dropped the aid right on the money. The Telegraph are full of sh*t!
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