White House Releases a Three-Year OIF Fact Sheet: In addition to marking the three-year anniversary of the initiation of Operation Iraqi Freedom in President Bush’s weekly radio address, the White House put out a fact sheet— “Operation Iraqi Freedom: Three Years Later.”
After years of experiments and tests, senior Air Force leaders say they're on the verge of using C-17s and other cargo aircraft to launch cruise missiles via airdrop, touting the development as a way to bolster the combat fleet and a major shift in the service’s mindset.