U.A.E.’s first female fighter pilot dropped bombs on the Islamic State
Source: Washington Post
"Maj. Mariam al-Mansouri, the first female fighter pilot in the history of the United Arab Emirates, led the the Gulf state's bombing raids over Syria this week. Photos of al-Mansouri, beaming from her cockpit, that were released by the country's state news agency have taken social media by storm."
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/09/25/u-a-e-s-first-female-fighter-pilot-dropped-bombs-on-the-islamic-state/
I think this is very newsworthy as women in a military leadership position in a Middle Eastern nation are extremely rare.
samsingh
(17,600 posts)jonjensen
(168 posts)an oxygen mask in stead of a face mask?
mcar
(42,368 posts)Look it up.
Blue State Bandit
(2,122 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)Simply because the story was from the NY Post
irisblue
(33,018 posts)let them be very afraid of losing their 'reward'
Schema Thing
(10,283 posts)according to a story circulating recently regarding the female Kurdish forces.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)Do the ISIS psychos she kills not get their 72 virgins?
mahannah
(893 posts)EX500rider
(10,849 posts)Baclava
(12,047 posts)http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=900459
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EX500rider
(10,849 posts)rollin74
(1,987 posts)reddread
(6,896 posts)mental health much?
EX500rider
(10,849 posts)Threedifferentones
(1,070 posts)Have a nice day? Ya, this time the victims of the bombing basically deserve it. Assuming she didn't hit anything non-ISIS by mistake. Have a nice day? Alright there Bruce Willis...
EX500rider
(10,849 posts)reddread
(6,896 posts)do real people get behind this fiction and propaganda?
7962
(11,841 posts)Its no secret that there are female pilots in the ME
reddread
(6,896 posts)dont let it interfere with your fun.
7962
(11,841 posts)they're not doing it on OUR streets, so who gives a shit if they behead children and rape women. We shouldnt fight that, especially using a female which they hate even more.
I dont think its "fun". Not at all. But evil such as Isis has no place.
EX500rider
(10,849 posts)reddread
(6,896 posts)female makes killing a tastier event, then?
GGJohn
(9,951 posts)just a form of payback for their brutality towards women, like that female Iraqi human rights lawyer that ISIL kidnapped, tortured and publicly executed in Mosul yesterday, so if we find something ironic and you don't like it, too bad.
GGJohn
(9,951 posts)quadrature
(2,049 posts)pilots never see the target.
they fly at 30k feet or so to a
pre-determined point 20 miles from the target
and let the bombs go.
(somebody on the ground does the rest.)
how much talent does that take?
the plane does not really need a pilot,
sorta a 'jobs program' kind of thing
reddread
(6,896 posts)garbage. propaganda.
some folks need a soup spoon or a ladle for it.
tasty stuff I gather.
EX500rider
(10,849 posts)Last edited Sat Sep 27, 2014, 01:05 AM - Edit history (1)
Where in the story did it claim she got "eye-to-eye" with them?
I think most of us know how modern bombing works.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Not many gas stations out in the Syria remote areas.