re: Official US/Israel vs Iran war thread

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WATCH: Joint Chiefs Chairman General Dan Caine’s continued his theme of using a Pentagon briefing to honor a specific set of soldiers involved in Operation Epic Fury. Today, he paid tribute to the airmen and women engaged in the bombing runs over Iran...

“Today, I want to continue my theme of talking about members of our incredible joint force. Today, I want to talk about some exceptional airmen who are engaged in the fight daily. United States Air Force, Air Force Reserve, and Air National Guard crews within our bomber force, the B-1s, B-2s and B-52s and the airmen on the ground who maintain and load these weapon systems. They are the backbone of America’s long range strike capability, and their contributions to Epic Fury have been decisive. Assigned to Stratcom under Admiral Rich Correll and supported by Transcom, the tanker force that we’ve talked about under the command of General Randall Reed, every mission is designed to achieve overwhelming outcomes on behalf of the United States and our allies. Last weekend, I had the chance to go out and see some of our deployed bomber forces, the B-1 and B-52 crews, and I had a chance to sit down with some young aviators and maintainers and ask them, how do you feel? Tell me about your typical day. And these are crews comprised of between two and five airmen, two on the on the B-2, five on the on the B-52s, and four in the B-1s out there. Some of these Americans are in their early or mid 20s, and we give them the gift of this incredible responsibility, hundreds of thousands of pounds of aircraft, and they take off and go do our work as required. Their mission actually begins the day prior when they’re given a target or a bunch of targets, and they begin to study those targets. Look at what are the effects required? What are the weapons required to get there? How will we program these weapons? What is the weather? What is the tanker flow? It’s an incredibly complex problem that we give each and every one of these crews, and they work it over the period of 24 hours prior, get some rest, and then step out the door to go fly. The last thing they do is they check all of their equipment, their oxygen masks, survival gear, load pistols and get ready to go. They crank the jets about an hour prior to takeoff and then launch into the daylight doing their preflight checks. And, as the kids say, lock in and prepare to go to war, sometimes on a long and stressful journey. During the flight, they’re surrounded by technology and capabilities, and they’ll do multiple aerial refueling efforts across tankers on the way to the AOR — area of responsibility — either coming from the states or coming from a forward deployed basing.”

“And I will tell you, as a fighter pilot, getting gas is a lot easier in an f-16 than it is in a, B-1, B-2, or a B-52 where you are, you are handling this airplane. It is a physical thing, unlike a fighter, that’s a lot easier. And they stay on that boom for sometimes up to 30 minutes, taking hundreds of thousands of pounds of gas. It is a physical, demanding thing to take gas, and they do it multiple times on the way there, and they do it multiple times on the way home. As they enter the operating area, they bring the entirety of America’s joint force together to go do the things that we’ve asked them to do, to put bombs on time, on target with the proper effects. And I know they’re feeling a range of emotions, but the thing the American people should take away from it is they’re filled with a focus that is incredibly impressive. And they have fear, of course, but their bigger fear is, dear God, please don’t let me screw this up, a warrior’s prayer that we all have in our souls. In the days of Epic Fury they were shooting, as we’ve talked about in this room, a lot of standoff weapons.”

“Now we’ve switched and rolled, as I mentioned last week, to stand in weapons. And behind each and every one of them are incredible maintainers and weapons builders who go out there and make sure these aircraft and their weapon systems are ready to go. These airplanes are so big that they’re not in hangars. They’re out in the cold, out in the snow, out in the rain. The bombs are being built outside for protection and to make sure that it’s safe, and they do it 24/7, 365. It’s not comfortable work, but when you go spend just a minute with these incredibly young Americans who are so motivated, you cannot come away from that exchange. Not being hopeful for America’s future. It is simply awesome. And we hand these Americans, young Americans, incredible and weighty responsibility, and they deliver every single time, quietly, with professionalism and humility, doing the things that we ask them to do.”

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NEW: President Trump says the United States had to surprise Iran with an attack, just like Japan did at Pearl Harbor, while sitting next to Japan's Prime Minister.

Reporter: Why didn't you tell U.S allies ... like Japan about the war before attacking Iran?

Trump: You don't want to signal too much. We went in very hard and we didn't tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?

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When has a Secretary of the Treasury been a public mouthpiece for military actions before?

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NEW: President Trump says the United States had to surprise Iran with an attack, just like Japan did at Pearl Harbor, while sitting next to Japan's Prime Minister.

Reporter: Why didn't you tell U.S allies ... like Japan about the war before attacking Iran?

Trump: You don't want to signal too much. We went in very hard and we didn't tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?


Damn

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You could tell he realized he just stepped in it before he began tap dancing.

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