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Originally Posted by beatnavy
From what I recall that operation on Libya was launched from a Royal Air Base in the UK. The French guvmint wouldn't allow us to cross their airspace for the mission, so it ended up being a very long round trip for the F-111 crews.
God bless France, but that wasn't necessarily a high point in US/Franco military cooperation  |
That is a fairly common occurrence over there. They want us to do the heavy lifting but hand out a bunch of sissy restrictions like:
A. don't use our airspace,
B. don't send your stuff through our country via rail,
C. you can't use our ports,
and my personal favorite D... If your stuff went thru certain countries that didn't quite jive with the destination country OR sailed on a vessel flagged under certain countries then host nations flip out.
But the country side is beautiful
