re: Meet the Pilot Who Dropped the Sarin Bomb

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They must be hurting for pilots if they have generals flying combat missions

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Their rank system is completely different from anything in the west. There's tons of generals in the Syrian army and they often fight on the front lines with their soldiers. A general in the Syrian army can be a squad leader all the way up to commanding a section of the entire army. It just doesn't mean as much there as it does here.

A good example of this is General Zahhredine (probably butchered his name) who fights on the front lines and has been wounded multiples times.