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New intel squadron turns aerial eye on terrorists
DefenceTalk.com ^

Posted on 08/29/2006 11:51:31 PM PDT by DTAD

HURLBURT FIELD: Terrorists and their supporters around the world soon will be under the gaze of a powerful "unblinking eye" providing information on their whereabouts to a "brain" here.

The reactivation of the 11th Intelligence Squadron here marks a milestone for Air Force Special Operations Command, which gains its first intelligence squadron. The 11th IS, commanded by Lt. Col. David Hambleton, is assigned to Air Force Special Operations Forces, AFSOC's warfighting headquarters.

The squadron's mission is to process, exploit and disseminate to commanders information gathered by AFSOC's MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicles and other airborne intelligence and surveillance sources, Colonel Hambleton said.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: intelligence; terrorists; usairforce; waronterror
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1 posted on 08/29/2006 11:51:31 PM PDT by DTAD
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To: Alas Babylon!; American_Centurion; An.American.Expatriate; ASA.Ranger; ASA Vet; Atigun; ...

MI Ping


2 posted on 08/29/2006 11:58:30 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Deliberate ignorance is a sad thing to witness.)
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To: DTAD

I wonder if he's related to the Hambleton who was the subject of Bat-21. As a LTC, he's probably about the right age to be his son.


3 posted on 08/30/2006 12:00:01 AM PDT by kms61
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SOCOM Ping


4 posted on 08/30/2006 12:00:52 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Deliberate ignorance is a sad thing to witness.)
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To: ASA Vet
And I thought I was remotely controlled......

Short call 30AUG061000Z. Affirm receipt.
5 posted on 08/30/2006 12:27:55 AM PDT by BIGLOOK (Keelhauling is a sensible solution to mutiny.)
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To: BIGLOOK
Don't you ever sleep?

A cute little 20 year Thai University student accused me a couple days ago of being a netaholic.
(No, I wasn't hitting on her.)

6 posted on 08/30/2006 12:40:13 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Deliberate ignorance is a sad thing to witness.)
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To: ASA Vet
Yeah, I sleep. And correcting my rusty time keeping. 30Aug061500Z. Give you a call.

(She was hitting on you, you dog.)
7 posted on 08/30/2006 12:48:57 AM PDT by BIGLOOK (Keelhauling is a sensible solution to mutiny.)
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To: BIGLOOK
Well, I suppose I owe you a photo so you can decide if being a dog is a bad thing.
She's the one on the right.


8 posted on 08/30/2006 12:53:48 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Deliberate ignorance is a sad thing to witness.)
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To: BIGLOOK
As for timekeeping. My computer clock is set for GMT.
It's 0808 as I send this.
9 posted on 08/30/2006 1:08:35 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Deliberate ignorance is a sad thing to witness.)
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To: ASA Vet

Chat in the AM. Hitting the rack.


10 posted on 08/30/2006 1:16:32 AM PDT by BIGLOOK (Keelhauling is a sensible solution to mutiny.)
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FYI


11 posted on 08/30/2006 1:21:36 AM PDT by Cap Huff
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To: ASA Vet

sway mach puyang (or however one spells that in Thai)


12 posted on 08/30/2006 1:22:04 AM PDT by ThePythonicCow (We are but Seekers of Truth, not the Source.)
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To: ThePythonicCow

Close enough I understood, but female should have been first in the phrase.


13 posted on 08/30/2006 1:39:10 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Deliberate ignorance is a sad thing to witness.)
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To: ASA Vet
Ah - such details are beyond my limited speaking of Thai.

It has been many years since I was there - still brings a smile to my face thinking of it. I was in the middle of the country, at the Ko Kha Air Station for 18 months, in the early 1970's.

14 posted on 08/30/2006 1:46:07 AM PDT by ThePythonicCow (We are but Seekers of Truth, not the Source.)
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ping


15 posted on 08/30/2006 3:19:58 AM PDT by AdmSmith
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To: DTAD

The military has changed so much since I retired in '91. My last overseas assignment was in Berlin and recently my wife and I were looking at some of our photos. I remarked to her that the military that I served in, the military geared and trained to fight the Soviets in central Europe doesn't exist anymore. I thought that all of the training, doctrine, tactics and strategy of the Cold War is about as relative to the threat today as the War of 1812. So much has changed in just a short time.


16 posted on 08/30/2006 3:37:04 AM PDT by ops33 (Retired USAF Senior Master Sergeant)
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To: ASA Vet

Would it be possible to be added to the SOCOM ping list. I have a son in the community.

Thanks.


17 posted on 08/30/2006 4:12:14 AM PDT by Recon Dad (Marine Spec Ops Dad)
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To: ThePythonicCow
>> sway mach puyang

Does that mean something like "consummation is imminent"?

18 posted on 08/30/2006 4:19:51 AM PDT by T'wit (It is not possible to "go too far" criticizing liberals. No matter what you say, they're worse.)
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To: ops33
True true.... in the Reagan years, my brother was in an intelligence unit with the 2nd armored cavalry in Nuremberg. Now that the 2nd AC is deployed in Iraq, the unit has been converted to psyops.

Talk about a task change.

19 posted on 08/30/2006 4:20:54 AM PDT by tcostell (MOLON LABE)
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To: ASA Vet
A very pretty young lady!

Resistance is futile :-)

20 posted on 08/30/2006 4:21:17 AM PDT by T'wit (It is not possible to "go too far" criticizing liberals. No matter what you say, they're worse.)
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