Page 12 - Air Controllers News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

And others that they are an abomination as far as true islamic. >> well explained. thanks. we'll get into more acronyms. let's go over to the pentagon and jim miklaszewski. so, jim, andrea reports that on the list of things to try to get from the united states when president hollande of frons c e france comes to the white house next week is forward air controllers, explain the job, the position and how that would make the campaign against isis better. >> reporter: brian, u.s. special operations forces. on the edge of the battle. and they would be able to spot, pinpoint targets. not only target...

For u.s. air controllers training with the french in nato to be on the ground in syria against isis. and that would be -- it would better help them targeting the isis targets inside syria. they really want to ramp that up. russia today again hitting raqqah but also told that russia is running out of precision-guided weapons so this could be carpet bombing rather than target bombing and could be civilian targets and the u.s. really stepping up its air strikes, taking out 116 oil tankers today. this is the liquid gold that fuels the isis financial and terror network that's now spread as you know...

Scenario? >> well, you know, we currently have a special operations forces, not only a small group in syria, but in iraq. again, this is going to take a comprehensive approach. now people have talked about putting air controllers on the ground, that's not a magic pill but it can certainly help if selectively done. thereto is a price tag that comes with those folks. they need security and medical support and the like. >> and it puts them at risk. >> and it puts them at risk. the special operators are very innovative in this whole process of doing what i call virtual controllers from the rear th...

Exists in this region. and if we want to help the refugees, the thing to do to help them, is to stabilize the region, to win this war. to make it so they want to stay home instead of millions of them trying to come to europe or to come to the united states. if we want to help these people, let's create a stable environment for them. that's the most important thing we could do and it's not talked about any longer. >> because of your past with the b-1 bomber, let me close on a question to you about this air war. general barry mccaffery was joined by severals on television expressing the need for...

Expected to be there within the month. they are not going to be a game changer in this war against isis. every military official i've spoken to agrees to that point. their job, advise, assist, coordinate. they will obviously have a key role in gathering intelligence on the ground. for the first time they will be there. but already, even as we see this, there are moves being made to expand all of this yet again. what is coming next? well, the pentagon already saying that they are looking at putting an additional group of special operations forces out in syria and iraq to conduct raids against h...