Do you think special forces like CAG and or DEVGRU were involved when it comes to gathering intel before the navy/airforce strike their targets?
Special forces sending intel
Do you think special forces like CAG and or DEVGRU were involved when it comes to gathering intel before the navy/airforce strike their targets?
Probably a bit. But aircraft today can self designate targets so you don't need a spotter on the ground.
Pretty sure there are some ground units there to verify somethinga that aircrafts can't.
Most of the on-the-ground intel comes from the Saudis. They bend over and show hole for the US at every opportunity
Don't the Saudis ball break the US with all the talk about accepting RMB for oil?
that's what we want them to think
Saudi intell is probably third rate shit and no way would the US go on that.
The Saudis are really shit at everything they do and military stuff is not their thing.
obviously. you need very high up approval for air strikes. part of that is intelligence, though it’s usually from recovered computer hardware or local informants. I don’t know what it is now but it was like a week to get strike approval under Obama and about 36 hours under Trump
Is there one for biden?
24th STS and other USAF people get attached to to CAG/DEV to direct air during operations. Plenty of operators are JTAC qualified too.
Also yes you have Tier 1 guys performing recon tasks from sitting on a hill looking through binoculars to driving a taxi through the city to eyeball a target before it gets raided or bombed
>to driving a taxi through the city to eyeball a target before it gets raided or bombed
>be me
>be tier one larperator
>inna city doing covert recon driving taxi
>drive past target area, looks good frickin send it
>mfw rush hour traffic on the way to the exfil leaves me trapped in the target area
Look up a guy called John “Shrek” McPhee he was in Delta from the late 90s to the 2010s and he participated in plenty of low visibility operations in Afghanistan where he just hitchhiked places and drove around like he was a local. In Iraq he had a taxi which he drove around to do the same kind of sneaky stuff.
In the Northern Ireland conflict the British SAS did loads of plain clothes sneaky stuff to do reconnaissance but obviously they didn’t drop bombs from planes into the middle of a town
i wouldn't worry about it haha 🙂
nah they just go on google maps or whatever to find targets
I don't know about the US, but some NATO forces send soldiers to dig a hole and play paparazzi for a few weeks. Sometimes they can also point a laser.
>I don't know about the US, but some NATO forces send soldiers to dig a hole and play paparazzi for a few weeks. Sometimes they can also point a laser.
That's how US used to do it, too. Hide sites for recon teams that hide for a long time, observing e.g. roads or bases were commonly planned.
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/fm/7-93/Appe.htm
Where do they shit
In plastic bags that go back in their rucks when they leave.
t. trained to do that kind of shit but (thankfully) never had to actually do it
More likely The Activity, that's their bread and butter
ISA is interesting, all references on them pretty much say that you have to be an operator to even be looked at to try out for them, truth is literally anyone from any branch can just apply. As long as you pass their selection and a bunch of psych stuff your good.
Depends on the target. Most targeting and recon missions are a little below their pay grade. They're mostly used for JSOC ops and high level "no fail' missions like Bin Laden or Zirqawi
there was an anon here who was just a navy reserve power point pusher who randomly got their recruiting email while in VA beach. Straight cold emailed em and they just said "sure here's a link fill this out and you can try out" never posted again. Very curious about their selection.
way back in the left is me, this was us after we liberated the gumdrop forest from big bird and the count. i fought big bird hand to hand in the gumdrop forest back in 86 and then i went back to my trashcan
I bet SIGINT collection and processing made up the bulk of the strike data sources.