ISIS posts on social media , JDAMs arrive in 24 hours

[John in Plano]

Much has been made about the ability of ISIS to master social media to recruit and broadcast their victories. But the U.S. Air Force is turning the militant group’s eagerness to share on social media into that intelligence that produces targets.

Air Force Gen. Hawk Carlisle, head of Air Combat Command, described Monday how airmen at Hurlburt Field, Florida, with the 361st Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group, recognized a comment on social media and turned that into an airstrike that resulted in three Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) bombs destroying am Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) headquarters building.

“It was a post on social media to bombs on target in less than 24 hours,” Carlisle said. “Incredible work when you think about.”
Carlisle was careful not to share all of the Air Force’s secrets to include the location of the building but this is how he told the story at the recent breakfast meeting in Washington D.C. hosted by the Air Force Association.

“The guys that were working down out of Hurlburt, they’re combing through social media and they see some moron standing at this command. And in some social media, open forum, bragging about the command and control capabilities for Daesh, ISIL. And these guys go: ‘We got an in.’ So they do some work, long story short, about 22 hours later through that very building, three [Joint Direct Attack Munitions] take that entire building out.”




http://defensetech.org/2015/06/03/us-ai ... ial-media/

[BillB]

It's not very smart for the AF to be bragging about it publicly.
That will probably dry up the source.

[GFB]

More Mossad members meet their maker!

[millergrovesue]

It's not very smart for the AF to be bragging about it publicly.
That will probably dry up the source.

I have to believe they have a reason to be doing this................unless it was leaked by some idiot.

[ralph]

reminds me of the old saying that LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS !!

[BigTex]

They may be looking at another possible source that is not discussed, to see how it reacts when they made this information public.

[geeiabil]

reminds me of the old saying that LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS !!

Yep, USAF General (4 stars) Hawk Carlisle, head of Air Combat Command, is your miscreant.

[geeiabil]

A longer version of that article mentioned members of the US Army emailing home pictures of four new Blackhawk helicopters their unit in Iraq received. Because they didn't strip the GPS data from their photos, the copters were promptly turned into salvage parts.

[RaisinCain]

It's not very smart for the AF to be bragging about it publicly.
That will probably dry up the source.

Exactly. I don't know why people, ostensibly intelligent people of high rank, would compromise what he himself is citing as a great intelligence source.