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Which airfield? Sorry, I don't have the reference here at home. Its the
same place where the Army POWs were transferred to the KC-130 on TV. "Guy Alcala" wrote in message .. . Frijoles wrote: snip On the warfighting side, if fighting an air war was simply a matter of stacking jets somewhere, we could cover the entire battlespace with B-1s or B-2s. (A trivia question -- how many CV sorties does it take to cover the same number of DMPIs that ONE B-1 with a full load of SDBs can cover?) And if tanking isn't an "issue," what's up with all the bragging about what a great tanking capability the Navy's brand new STRIKE aircraft provides...? Especially since they had to send four more F-18Es to the theater during the war, to boost the navy's own tanker assets (and of course, taking away airbridge tanker assets from other jobs, to get them there). 45% of Marine CAS sorties during OIF were flown by Harriers -- that's hardly a trivial number, particularly if you're on the ground getting shot at, or facing the prospect of having to deal with massed armor and indirect fires. IIRC, about 1500 strike sorties were flown off L-class ships, principally Bataan and BHR which each operated 20-25 jets. A couple hundred were flown from a "recovered" airfield within 10 minutes of Baghdad. snip Would you happen to know which airfield? I've found one source that says it was "60nm south" of Baghdad, but no other details. Looking at a map, http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middl...print_2003.jpg Shayka Mazhar and Al Iskandariyah New appear to be too close to the city, Salman Pak East is too close and too far east (although the Marines did go by there IIRR). An Najaf New is due south of Baghdad and about the right distance, but AFAIK the marines weren't near there in any strength, having crossed the Euphrates at Nasiriya before heading up between the rivers towards Baghdad. The Shaykh Hantush Highway Strip seems to be the closest match for distance and direction, but the marines also went through al Kut, which puts An Numaniyah (I know they took that) or Al Jarrah in the picture (although they're more SE than S), and possibly the fields south and/or east of Al Kut, altough they're a bit far and definitely southeast. Guy |
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