{"id":14016,"date":"2009-08-29T13:47:32","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T18:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14016"},"modified":"2009-08-29T14:09:44","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T19:09:44","slug":"whats-the-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14016","title":{"rendered":"What’s the use?"},"content":{"rendered":"

You probably read Uncle Jimbo’s post at Blackfive<\/a> (by way of Mrs. Greyhawk<\/a> and DVIDS<\/a>) about a US Navy helicopter taking fire from some Somali pirates the other day. Uncle Jimbo rightly asks why they didn’t return fire.<\/p>\n

Today’s Star and Stripes<\/a> reports that a ground-based UAV unit is moving to the area.<\/p>\n

About 75 U.S. military personnel and civilians will be headed to the Seychelles islands in the coming weeks to set up the Reaper operations, which could start in October or November. U.S. Africa Command is calling the Navy-led mission Ocean Look.<\/p>\n

The U.S. will base the Reapers \u2014 to be used for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance \u2014 at Seychelles\u2019 Mah\u00e9 regional airport, Vince Crawley, AFRICOM spokesman, said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Two or three months seems like a long time to set up combat operations in a region that is plagued by pirates in little motor boats. The most disturbing part of the article is this line;<\/p>\n

The UAVs would not be armed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Then what’s the point? As Jimbo points out, we’re already not willing to let live people shoot at the thugs, so why bother launching more aircarft from which we won’t kill them? We already know that the Left has complained that this type of weaponry that doesn’t get our own troops killed on the grounds that it’s inhumane. Is this more of the Obama Administration pretending to do something about the threats to peace in that region without actually doing what needs to be done?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You probably read Uncle Jimbo’s post at Blackfive (by way of Mrs. Greyhawk and DVIDS) about … What’s the use?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,9,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-foreign-policy","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}