Air Force Gen. Hawk Carlisle, head of Air Combat Command, reported this past Monday how airmen with 361st Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group at Hurlburt Field, Florida spotted the militant’s ‘selfie’ on Twitter – 22 hours later the ISIS headquarters building met with 3 JDAM bombs!
“The [airmen are] combing through social media and they see some moron standing at this command,” Carlisle stated at a speech. “And in some social media, open forum, bragging about command and control capabilities for Da’esh, ISIL, And these guys go ‘ah, we got an in.’
“It was a post on social media to bombs on target in less than 24 hours,” Carlisle said. “Incredible work when you think about.”
Carlisle was careful not to share all of the Air Force’s secrets to include the location of the building but this is how he told the story at the recent breakfast meeting in Washington D.C. hosted by the Air Force Association.
“The guys that were working down out of Hurlburt, they’re combing through social media and they see some moron standing at this command. And in some social media, open forum, bragging about the command and control capabilities for Daesh, ISIL. And these guys go: ‘We got an in.’ So they do some work, long story short, about 22 hours later through that very building, three [Joint Direct Attack Munitions] take that entire building out.”
The vignette on how this airstrike came to be offers a broader picture into the intelligence gathering being done by Air Force intelligence specialists back at home and stationed forward. Many observers have questioned how the U.S. is producing targets in Iraq and Syria for coalition fighters and bombers with few boots on the ground. Carlisle offered a window into at least part of the process.
The story also offered a view into the Air Force’s updated intelligence organization.
Wheres the images or videos as proof this happens ?
Or is this just some self-serving / morale building junk ?
I am not familiar with the color scheme in the fighters in the picture. Are the U.S. fighters?