GrundleStiltzkin
New Fish
‘It’s a War': A Look at How the US and Its Allies Are Fighting ISIS
There is a humble lethality in the way the A-10 pilots talk about killing. They chuckle and eat ice cream for dessert as they tell stories about panic-stricken ISIS fighters accidentally running toward the distinctive sound of the A-10’s 30-mm Gatling cannons, or of an ISIS fighter who did a swan dive to his death off a cliff while trying to escape an A-10 attack.
“When I saw that, I just radioed: ‘He’s dead,’” one pilot, an Air Force major, dryly explained.
“They say they love death more than we love life,” another pilot, a captain, said. “But they always flee when we attack. I’ve never seen one not try to get away.”
Guess I'm checked out on the news these days, I didn't realize we had that much force deployed in Syria.