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Monday, January 23, 2012

Iraqi pilots coming to Arizona to learn how to fly F-16s

F-16 Fighting FalconAll but a handful of U.S. troops have left Iraq, but the mission to train the Iraqi military is continuing in Tucson, Ariz., where Iraqis will learn how to fly F-16s.

Saddam Hussein’s once formidable air force was obliterated in the course of two wars against the United States.

Those fighters that were not destroyed were either buried in sand and thus made inoperable or sent to Iran and Serbia.

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