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  • Largest US Carrier Strike Ever - In SOMALIA

    From c186282@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 21 18:45:13 2025
    XPost: alt.politics.usa, alt.politics, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh

    https://greekreporter.com/2025/05/21/us-largest-airstrike-aircraft-carrier/

    The US Navy has confirmed it carried out the largest airstrike
    ever launched from an aircraft carrier, marking a significant
    show of force during operations in East Africa earlier this
    year.

    Adm. James Kilby, acting chief of naval operations, said Monday
    that the USS Harry S. Truman and its carrier strike group
    dropped 125,000 pounds of bombs in a single mission over Somalia.
    He called it the largest airstrike ever conducted from one carrier.

    A defense official told Business Insider the operation took
    place on Feb. 1 while the Truman was operating in the Red Sea.
    The strike involved around 16 F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jets
    in a single coordinated bombing run.

    According to US Africa Command, the airstrikes targeted senior
    ISIS-Somalia leaders hiding in a network of caves.

    . . .

    I'd hoped we were long out of that country, but
    apparently not ....

    ISIS never sleeps, so I guess we can't either.

    They could only confirm 12 dead terrorists - so
    that's about 10,000 lbs of explosives expended
    per perp. Seems inefficient somehow. Of course
    there may be a lot more entombed in the caves ...

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  • From Mitchell Holman@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu May 22 02:04:06 2025
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    c186282 <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:

    https://greekreporter.com/2025/05/21/us-largest-airstrike-aircraft-carr
    ier/

    The US Navy has confirmed it carried out the largest airstrike
    ever launched from an aircraft carrier, marking a significant
    show of force during operations in East Africa earlier this
    year.

    Adm. James Kilby, acting chief of naval operations, said Monday
    that the USS Harry S. Truman and its carrier strike group
    dropped 125,000 pounds of bombs in a single mission over Somalia.
    He called it the largest airstrike ever conducted from one carrier.

    A defense official told Business Insider the operation took
    place on Feb. 1 while the Truman was operating in the Red Sea.
    The strike involved around 16 F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jets
    in a single coordinated bombing run.

    According to US Africa Command, the airstrikes targeted senior
    ISIS-Somalia leaders hiding in a network of caves.

    . . .

    I'd hoped we were long out of that country, but
    apparently not ....

    ISIS never sleeps, so I guess we can't either.




    "We're gonna beat ISIS very, very quickly, folks.
    It's gonna be fast. I have a great plan. It's going
    to be great."
    Donald Trump, April 23 2016
    https://tinyurl.com/y6zmes58

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  • From Siri Cruz@21:1/5 to Mitchell Holman on Wed May 21 19:18:12 2025
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    On 21/5/25 19:04, Mitchell Holman wrote:
    I'd hoped we were long out of that country, but
    apparently not ....

    ISIS never sleeps, so I guess we can't either.



    "We're gonna beat ISIS very, very quickly, folks.
    It's gonna be fast. I have a great plan. It's going
    to be great."

    If the Bush's Congressional authourisation is still valid,
    Congress allowed it.

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