The Air Force's unique global airlift and air-support capabilities, and long-range targeting and precision bombing, provide the umbrella under which ground forces and naval forces can act with impunity and assured lethality. ❋ Michael Auslin (2011)
We have been flying around the clock, close air-support, and reconnaissance. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In an announcement late Friday, the Defense Department said the Air Force had awarded a contract worth $355 million to Sierra Nevada Corp. for 20 light air-support aircraft—single-engine turboprop aircraft that will serve as both trainers and ground-attack planes for Afghanistan's nascent air force. ❋ Nathan Hodge (2011)
Mr. Fuhaima confirmed he had received the air-support request from Mr. Mukhtar and said it was relayed up the chain to NATO. ❋ Charles Levinson (2011)
Hawker Beechcraft received some goods news on that front Wednesday, when the Air Force put on hold its contract to buy the attack planes from rival Sierra Nevada Corp. The Air Force said it issued a temporary "stop-work" order to Sierra Nevada, which in late December won the contract worth $355 million to deliver 20 light air-support aircraft for Afghanistan's military. ❋ David Kesmodel (2012)
"The patrol called for a close air-support mission in which a coalition aircraft positively identified the insurgent firing position and conducted an air strike," a coalition statement said. ❋ Maria Abi-Habib (2010)
Not content with your own sneers and jeers, you call up heavy insult air-support by way of a Stove, who gloats that his nasty hit piece did not elicit a threat to sue for libel (in America!) from Roberts, as happened with Johann Hari. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In June the Department of State awarded DynCorp Blackwater's old contract to provide air-support and security for American diplomats in Iraq, worth $915 million over the next five years. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Not from ground troops to air-support because Marine Air does CAS missions but from Marine pilots against Navy pilots who fly air inderiction instead. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)
The plane also is armed with a cannon that can be used for close air-support missions. ❋ Unknown (2008)
But when we're moving equipment into an overseas theatre on rented transport planes, moving it around slung under rented choppers, hitching rides on Dutch or American helos, keeping our air-support home because of avionics concerns and insupportability, jerry-rigging Sea Kings as troop-transports, bone-yarding our tactical transports because of airframe fatigue - and that's just off the top of my head - then our focus should be on results first, process second. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Now, U.S. Central Command says that coalition aircraft were conducting close air-support missions over that area at the time. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Many of those missions are put on what we call close air-support standby in case we find pockets of resistance, enemy resistance. ❋ Unknown (2002)
The line, at this point, had been rather thinly held; the defenders immediately called for air-support, and Jarman ordered fifteen of his remaining twenty airjeeps and five combat-cars into the fight. ❋ Piper, H. Beam (1952)
The line, at this point, had been rather thinly held; the defenders immediately called for air-support, and ❋ H. Beam Piper (1934)
"Europe will have to develop close air-support aircraft and that will be at the expense of something else," said Francois Heisbourg, a French strategic analyst. ❋ Unknown (2011)
He was deployed to Iraq in 2005, 2007 and 2009 and flew reconnaissance and close air-support missions out of Balad Air Base, about 50 miles northwest of Baghdad. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Obama took issue with the idea that the United States is holding back from the air-support effort, a suggestion that has arisen this week as he visits Europe. ❋ Unknown (2011)
