In case you missed it, here is a report in the San Francisco Chronicle about the gaffe by the airport authority in Oakland, Calif. They wouldn’t let a planeload of marines into the passenger terminal during a two-hour layover on their way back to Hawaii after a tour in Iraq.
The U.S. began extensive air and artillery strikes against Islamic State group targets in Syria on Dec. 19 in retaliation for the killing of three Americans on Dec. 13 by a gunman affiliated with ISIS, U.S. officials said.

