US Forces Ready to Destroy 10,000 Targets in the Middle East

But they're doing it for Truth, Freedom and the American Way! Killing is GOOD if it makes everyone free like us! Soon they will all be good Christians and everyone will drink Budweiser and talk about how happy they are that America bombed their country!

Won't that be just swell?

If we are actually that ready, good.

How many Buds is my life worth Nick. or preferably how many cartons of Lucky Strike. Oh yeah could I have a new Chevy Corvette as well

Life can't be measured by Bud alone oldandknew. The current administration includes the freedom of ALL large corporations to sell their products. The Mid East will not be free until they are giving us cheap oil and eveyone uses American products like Right Guard Deodorant, Little Debbie Snack Cakes and everyone is running Windows. Never mind the fact that even most of those products are now made in China...

There are not currently enough aircraft in the United States inventory to destroy 10,000 targets in a matter of 'hours' even if you combine all the aircraft of the Air Force, Marines, Navy, and Army.

Add in every cruise missile that could be fired from naval vessels and you STILL couldnt begin servicing a tenth of that many targets in a 24 hour period.

Desert Storm (January 16 - February 28, 1991) Length 43 Days
Total sorties flown in Gulf War: 109,870 - 109,876
Total strike sorties flown in Gulf War: 42,600
Tonnage of all munitions: 88,500 tons
Tonnage of PGMs: 6,520 tons (7.4 percent of the total)

In Desert Storm it took 43 DAYS to hit 42,000 targets. Including the Allies we had in Desert Storm, there were three times the aircraft that the U.S. can field today.

That averages to a little less than 1000 targets a day during the Gulf War.

So what this writer is saying is that the U.S. will hit, in less than a day, TEN TIMES the number of targets that were hit with less than a third of the aircraft that we flew 15 years ago.

The writer obviously has his head up his a$$ on all things military.

I just want to know how the Air Force will manage to bend the laws of space/time to allow their pilots to fly more than 24 hours in each day.