To not only attract recruits, but to get their message out. like in this case. and to add to what evan said about how this information got out, it appears that actually inadvertently the pentagon, itself, over their social media sites, their public affairs sites, in an effort to boost support for the u.s. military, put out 66 of these 100 names on their own websites not only describing what they did, such as a bomb commander, a bomb squadron commander, but also that on this run, they attacked isis targets in syria. identifying some of these pilots by name. all part of public affairs effort by ...