The US Air Force has conducted nearly
three-quarters of the strikes conducted in Iraq and Syria and roughly half of
the strikes in Syria so far, said
Maj.
Gen. Jeffrey Harrigian, assistant deputy chief of staff for operations,
plans, and requirements on the Air Staff. USAF aircraft also have conducted 70
percent of the more than 3,800 sorties flown in the two countries; 95 percent
of the nearly 1,300 tanker sorties, and more than 700 ISR sorties supporting
the operation, Harrigian told reporters on Sept. 29. “We are part of an
integrated coalition effort, and this broad coalition has been and will
continue to be the cornerstone of the strategy against ISIL,” said Harrigian. “From
an airman’s perspective, we have worked for years to develop relationships
across the theater with our fellow airmen, much like our sister services have
done. Training with them both in theater and in the states to allow us the flexibility to seamlessly integrate them into the operations
that we’ve been executing.”
