{"id":6601,"date":"2015-07-13T17:58:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T22:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=6601"},"modified":"2015-07-13T17:58:48","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T22:58:48","slug":"did-we-just-help-create-the-isis-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/13\/did-we-just-help-create-the-isis-air-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Did we just help create the ISIS Air Force?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"title\"><\/h1>\n<p>With the Iraqi Military&#8217;s piss -poor combat record combined with their pathetic tendency to abandon US Military hardware to the enemy (remember all those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/islamic-states-gains-reveal-new-prowess-on-battlefield-1432592298\">Humvees<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/defensetech.org\/2014\/10\/30\/isis-releases-photos-of-militants-using-u-s-m113s-as-vbieds\/\">M113 APC&#8217;s<\/a> ISIS captured from the Iraqi Army and used as VBIED&#8217;s, mostly during the battle for Ramadi?) Well, now replace the Humvee with a Fighter Jet, and think of 9\/11&#8230;basically a flying VBIED&#8230;yeah, it could be that bad if they got ahold of these things&#8230;even if they did not have the know how to fight with them, all they would really know how to do (like with 9\/11) is TAKE-OFF and CRASH it into American or Coalition Targets of opportunity in the Middle East like say an Embassy or ABOT, the Al Basrah Oil Terminal in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>I think in light of all that evidence, this is a serious question to ponder; I only Hope I am wrong&#8230; for all our sakes.<\/p>\n<h1 id=\"page-title\" class=\"title\">US delivers first F-16 fighters to Iraq<\/h1>\n<div class=\"clearer\"><\/div>\n<article class=\"node-247718 node node-article view-mode-full clearfix\">\n<header><\/header>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/article_full\/public\/article_images\/f-16f16_071315getty.jpg?itok=xfTdodOp\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"363\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"credits\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"submitted\">By <a title=\"All articles by Martin Matishak\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/author\/martin-matishak\">Martin Matishak<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>The U.S. on Monday delivered the first lot of F-16 fighter jets to the Iraqi government to be used in the fight against Islamic militants.<\/p>\n<p>Brett McGurk, the administration\u2019s deputy special presidential envoy to the coalition against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), confirmed the deliver on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brett_mcgurk\/status\/620551466923589632\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After years of preparation &amp; training in the U.S., Iraqi pilots today landed the 1st squadron of Iraqi F16s in #Iraq,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The four jets arrived the Balad air base around midday local time, an Iraqi air force official told<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/07\/13\/mideast-crisis-iraq-jets-idUSL5N0ZT27R20150713\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/247718-us-delivers-first-f-16-fighters-to-iraq\">The Hill<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Iraqi Military&#8217;s piss -poor combat record combined with their pathetic tendency to abandon US Military hardware to the enemy (remember all those Humvees and M113 APC&#8217;s ISIS captured from the Iraqi Army and used as VBIED&#8217;s, mostly during the battle for Ramadi?) Well, now replace the Humvee with a Fighter Jet, and think&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[74,272],"tags":[1750,1083,1751],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}