Echo Company
https://news.yahoo.com/how-a-secreti...100000657.html The Army's killer drones: How a secretive special ops unit decimated ISIS As the Islamic State’s physical caliphate shrinks to nothing after an almost five-year campaign led by U.S. special operations forces, military insiders say one small unit has killed more of the extremists than any other: the company of Gray Eagle drones in the Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment. Although the military has thrown a cloak of secrecy over its operations, the unit — officially called E (or “Echo”) Company of the regiment’s Second Battalion and established less than a decade ago — is increasingly being lauded in special operations and Army aviation circles....... Echo Company is credited with “well over 340 enemy killed in action” in Afghanistan and the Iraq-Syria theater between August 2014 and July 2015, according to a November 2015 Army write-up of an award for the unit. The company has also played a key role in a special operations task force established in Iraq in 2014 to roll back the Islamic State’s physical caliphate and hunt its leaders. Flying from a base in Iraq to attack targets in Syria, the drone company has launched “more than a thousand” Hellfire missiles in the last two to three years, the former 160th officer told Yahoo News. “That means to me they’ve been very busy in Syria.”..... |
1000 hellfires at a cost of roughly $115,000,000... yikes
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Economics are viewed differently in the USA. A bankrupt company in California wants to award over $300 million as bonuses. Colour me more confused than ever.
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What’s not to like? Dead enemy, US dollars spent on US weaponry made by US tax paying corporation which employs US folk. Would have cost loads more to use Brimstone...didn’t cost a single friendly life. |
Over a Thousand Hell Fire Missiles expended for 340 Kills of ISIS Fighters....the laudatory language sure isn't for marksmanship!
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I initially read the story the same SASless, but if you revisit it you will see that the actual kills were prior to the time period the Hellfires were used, it's a rather ambiguous piece of journalism. |
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