The French flew a mission to Rakka, some burb in Syria that ISIS calls its capital, today. As retaliation for the Paris massacre on Friday, an air strike on Monday ain't too shabby. Ten fighters dropped twenty bombs. Massive this is not. Even if some Fox newsies call it massive.
In the old days, I would stand on the flight line in the early morning at Korat RTAFB as we launched the morning strike on Hanoi, always 60 F-105's loaded with six 750 pounders apiece. And I always watched the afternoon strike, another 60 aircraft with six bombs apiece take off around 1 o'clock. I'm not gonna call 10 sorties and 20 bombs "massive".
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