Word: 15s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Incirlik, an isolated Turkish base 444 miles southeast of Istanbul, the Gulf War has never really ended. Most mornings some two dozen American F-15s and F-16s scream skyward, along with E-3 and RC-135 command planes and KC-135 tankers to keep them safely flying and fueled. An hour later, in a delicately choreographed ballet 400 miles east, the warplanes take their final sips of gas before turning south toward Iraq. Their mission: to show the Iraqi military how impotent Saddam is in protecting Iraqi sovereignty--and them. Maybe this will foment rebellion...
From a military standpoint, U.S. planes accomplished almost nothing in confronting Iraqi fighter aircraft Tuesday morning over the southern no-fly zone: Apparently none of the air-to-air missiles fired by the four U.S. planes -- two Air Force F-15s and two Navy F-14s -- struck their targets. But U.S. policy almost certainly took a PR hit. "Saddam Hussein is trying to show that the U.S. has run out of options," says TIME U.N. Correspondent William Dowell...
...good combinations," Caples said. "We were moving the ball well from the attacking 15s...
Danny Piper, a retired Air Force colonel, once believed the Air Force could fairly investigate its own wreckage. He's changed his mind, he says, "the hard way." On April 14, 1994, his daughter, Lieut. Laura Piper, 25, was one of 26 people killed when Air Force F-15s shot down two Army helicopters over Iraq. Four senior officers, including two generals, have declined to testify at hearings, citing the right against self-incrimination. The court-martial of AWACS Captain Jim Wang, the only officer facing trial in the shootdown, is scheduled for next week. The tragedy, says Diehl...
...Force said today that it will court martial Capt. Jim Wang, the chief of the crew on the AWACS plane that failed to warn off two F-15s last April before they shot down two U.S. helicopters over Iraq, killing 26. The Air Force dismissed charges against four other AWACS officers under Wang, who will be tried on three counts of dereliction of duty. If convicted, Wang faces dismissal from the Air Force and up to nine months confinement. The Pentagon's move comes after families of some of those killed in the "friendly fire" incident lashed out publicly against...