Army and Air Force troops train at a remote landing strip in Djibouti. Air Force photo
Joseph Trevithick, War Is Boring: Ready to Sneak All Over the Middle East
U.S. Air Force helped set stage for new Syria mission years ago.
When the Pentagon announced plans to send a team of commandos to Syria, no one seemed to stop and ask the most basic question – how are they going to get into an active war zone in the first place? Official documents show that the U.S. Air Force likely set the stage for this secretive mission years ago.
One of the Air Force Special Operations Command’s main missions is to sneak America’s elite troops in and out of hostile countries with its fleet of specialized aircraft. But the flying branch’s top commando headquarters also relies on specially trained airmen to first find places to drop troops and equipment.
In 2013, so-called Assault Zone Reconnaissance Teams — a.k.a. AZRTs — scouted out nearly 300 landing zones, drop zones and other sites “throughout the Middle East,” according to an official Air Force history War Is Boring obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
Update: How Will Pentagon Actually Put US Boots on the Ground in Syria? (Sputnik)
WNU Editor: It looks like this was gamed-out years ago.
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