Ospreys Migrate To Iraq

Ten new MV-22 "Osprey" tilt-rotors quietly departed the Marine Air Station at New River, North Carolina last week for the amphibious assault ship U.S.S. Wasp, a small aircraft carrier. There they joined the rest of Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 263, "The Thunder Chickens," enroute to Al-Asad Airbase in western Iraq for seven months of combat operations in the Anbar province. The squadron is deploying not quite one hundred members, of whom twenty-eight are pilots, including two women. They've been training for a year to go.

My guess is that by the end of the year, some insurgents are going to have some surprise visitors drop in on them unexpectedly.