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From the sky in afghanistan? these are the questions we need to be asking. at the moment, the us does have air superiority over afghanistan, basically has control of the air. but in order to conduct these precision air strikes, as i alluded to, you need boots on the ground, you need informants, you need the human channels. thats usually conducted with whats called a jtac — a joint air controller, usually a very highly qualified individual that embeds with forces on the ground to make sure the ...

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What's unique about the F-35 isn't just one thing, especially when you compare it to like an F-15 or older generation aircraft like the Phantom.

>> this was a joint special operations team. i think at the heart of it was s.e.a.l. team 6 but theyll go in with an air force air controller. >> and that circle by the way is chapman. >> they believe thats him. they did this not only from the drone imagery but the reports of those on the ground, the radio calls. they could begin to piece together where he was so thats -- this is, again, technology only the last couple of years that allowed them to do this. his job in these cases had things gone...

To discuss. thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me. abby: we just showed you photos of your brother. you have been a lot. he was your best friend. you grew up together. >> yeah. abby: tell us what happened to him. >> well, sam was truly a one of a kind individual. he was just so humble and caring and kind and he just embodied perrer is veernsz and he taught me that. and i think thats how i was able to get through the grief was because of all the attributes that he had. abby: he ...

Russia just waiting for that to happen. >> we have to think about what we are doing there and how many troops you need to do it. were providing air support among other thing, which were not going to provide if we dont have air controller, people on the ground to make sure the air strikes go with this. where its supposed to go. people developing intelligence so that we can use them against isis. if we pull troops out, even a small number, we only have a couple of thousand there. we pull them out,...

And isnt there a part of this decision that we dont know the answer whether or not its going to be mission creep or something else? >> well, thats true. and also what i just said, i forgot to mention that the russians are over there too, so we dont know how were going to be deconflicting with anything the russians are doing and what the ramifications are of russia somehow inadvertently or maybe intentionally doing, inflicting casualties on some of our americans. i think the biggest question for ...

Large mortars out of this howitzer. it is the most likely scenario. that is what happens in terms of tracking u.s. troops in the fog of war thats what is likely to come out. >> give n everyone neknew the coordinates of the hospital hospitals with borders said you are bombing our hospital, after that call came in was there a decision that irrespective of the hospital that americans or afghan forces are being fired upon and therefore they had no choice? >> i actually went to the headquarters at th...

Large mortars out of this howitzer. it is the most likely scenario. that is what happens in terms of tracking u.s. troops in the fog of war thats what is likely to come out. >> give n everyone neknew the coordinates of the hospital hospitals with borders said you are bombing our hospital, after that call came in was there a decision that irrespective of the hospital that americans or afghan forces are being fired upon and therefore they had no choice? >> i actually went to the headquarters at th...

This was a big cargo plane. >> if you look at it, judge, you will see on the left-hand side there is what looks like a gun coming out. what happens is they are in a tight bag they are over the hospital like this. they would be responding to a forward air controller that would fire from this particular position which they can observe from this aircraft. they confirm the taliban had been operating in the perimeter. hospital. they were responding to live fire from the taliban. again this is much le...