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Front of the senate that was approved a couple days ago that says there can be ground troops in the operations but they cant conduct operations. i served in operation freedom and the troops in iraq were technically not conducting combat operations. like an operation new dawn, over 6,500 troops were killed. its very broad based and gives the president a blank check to get us completely involved in a syrian civil war that has nothing to do with americans. >> i dont think thats his intention. >> ou...

How did that happen? >> it happens very quickly. what you see here on the map in front of you is called the theater of operations. libya specifically is the area of operations. these are the airfields where the air flights are coming out of and attacking targets into libya. whats important to understand is this is very busy air space. separation so airplanes dont fly into each other is achieved by vertical distance. its important to know over the atlantic or the western med is where refuelling t...