CHIBOK GIRLS: US Airforce Go Into Act
The United states who are currently on a mission
to rescue the missing over 200 Chibok school girls kidnapped by the
Boko Haram insurgents in Borno state on April 14 said that the 80
personnel deployed in Chad on the rescue mission are from the Air Force.
The President of the United states, Barack Obama in a letter on
Wednesday said that the US personnel, who would help with intelligence,
surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft for missions over northern
Nigeria, which shares a border with Chad are reported to have begun
their mission using a drone and Global Hawks.
A spokesman at the U.S. military’s Africa command in Germany, Chuck
Prichard, yesterday said that the 80 Air Force personnel were previously
stationed in the United States, but he did not say precisely where in
the U.S.
A senior U.S. official said the drone is a Predator and will be in
addition to the unarmed Global Hawks already being used. The new flights
will be based out of Chad and allow the military to expand its search
to that country. Initially the flights were largely over Nigeria.
Lt. Col. Myles Caggins said Wednesday that newly deployed forces will
help expand drone searches of the region. About 40 of the troops make
up the launch and recovering teams for the drone being deployed there
and the other 40 make up the security force for the team.