When is this administration going to abandon the ISIL acronym? Nobody in the World calls them that. Everybody else calls them ISIS, a name which grants them more limited scope. Why do we go out of our way to use a name that grants the enemy more legitimacy?
If it were up to me, I would refer to them exclusively as “Terrorist Assholes in Syria and Elsewhere” (TASE), and show them the respect they deserve.
Disgusting isn’t it? It is supposed to be. It is another of the jackasse’s tactics to humiliate and anger us.
Our F-15Cs are so old I don’t think they are much of a threat to anyone. They can serve no good purpose but to inflame the situation. They are also there because of obunghole’s muzzie buddy erdogan. Giving huge benefit of doubt, maybe to discourage erdogan from stupidly shooting at the russians.
E models are at Lakenheath. No C models to my knowledge. Most of the 159 C and 34 D models are in ANG squadrons.