Epic Fury aircraft loss & damage

[Llarry]

The Congressional Research Service released a report on U.S. aircraft losses to date during Operation Epic Fury. See attached.

 

[Griz882]

Interesting. It appears, or implies, that Congress isn’t fully informed - at least at unclassified levels.

 

[Faded Float Coat]

Interesting. It appears, or implies, that Congress isn’t fully informed - at least at unclassified levels.

The result of:
1. a department of defense run by obsequious sycophants with a strange affinity for large groups of men doing pushups together
2. a congress that, out of fear of its own constituents, neutered itself

 

[johnboyA6E]

What do you mean Congress wasn't informed? The CRS report that is linked literally includes a link to the DoD IG report that was delivered to Congress.

Are you saying that this unclassified report (both the inital DoD IG report, and the later CRS report) are underreporting the actual losses?

BTW - the only thing that appears missing from the DoD report is a listing of the intentional destructionn of the 2 MC130s that were stuck in the sand during the CSAR OP. No idea why they aren't there (maybe they are included in a classified version), by the time the report was issued all the OPSEC reasons and optics reasons hide the info were long gone

 

[Griz882]

What do you mean Congress wasn't informed? The CRS report that is linked literally includes a link to the DoD IG report that was delivered to Congress.

Are you saying that this unclassified report (both the inital DoD IG report, and the later CRS report) are underreporting the actual losses?

BTW - the only thing that appears missing from the DoD report is a listing of the intentional destructionn of the 2 MC130s that were stuck in the sand during the CSAR OP. No idea why they aren't there (maybe they are included in a classified version), by the time the report was issued all the OPSEC reasons and optics reasons hide the info were long gone

The structure of the report repeatedly notes things like “multiple articles reported” or “articles citing,” rather than noting a DoD report or CENTCOM statements. It may just be lazy writing, but when I read things like that it indicates that either Congress is relying on news reporting to determine losses, or CRS is too lazy to get their information from the source.