USAF teaching Iraqi's to fly airstrike missions.
Iraqi crews ‘ready to go’ on mission
Part of slow transition from Air Force reliance
By Bruce Rolfsen - Staff writer
Posted : Sunday Jul 12, 2009 9:42:57 EDT
Airmen deployed to Iraq are teaching their Iraqi counterparts to fly airstrike missions.
Today, after fewer than a dozen training flights, two Iraqi aircrews — a pilot and a mission-sensor operator make up an aircrew — are qualified to fire Hellfire missiles from AC-208B Caravan