ISIS Fighter Tweets A Selfie...US Air Force Tracks It And Destroys A Terrorist Headquarters With Bombs

DefenseTech – Much has been made about the ability of ISIS to master social media to recruit and broadcast their victories. But the U.S. Air Force is turning the militant group’s eagerness to share on social media into that intelligence that produces targets.

Air Force Gen. Hawk Carlisle, head of Air Combat Command, described Monday how airmen at Hurlburt Field, Florida, with the 361st Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group, recognized a comment on social media and turned that into an airstrike that resulted in three Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) missiles destroying am Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) headquarters building.

“It was a post on social media to bombs on target in less than 24 hours,” Carlisle said. “Incredible work when you think about.”

Carlisle was careful not to share all of the Air Force’s secrets to include the location of the building but this is how he told the story at the recent breakfast meeting in Washington D.C. hosted by the Air Force Association.

“The guys that were working down out of Hurlburt, they’re combing through social media and they see some moron standing at this command. And in some social media, open forum, bragging about the command and control capabilities for Daesh, ISIL. And these guys go: ‘We got an in.’ So they do some work, long story short, about 22 hours later through that very building, three [Joint Direct Attack Munitions] take that entire building out.”

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Used to think the worst thing that could happen posting a selfie was that you didn’t get double digit likes on Instagram. (So humiliating to put yourself out on a limb like that and get no self affirmation back.) Guess I was wrong…putting out a selfie that allows US Intelligence to track your exact location and have Air Force bombers on your ass in less than 24 hours and completely wipe out a strategic headquarters with carpet bombs is much worse. Hey terrorist fuckheads, keep bragging about your social media savvy brah. Maybe you can tweet about how that 20 tons of fiery rubble crashing down on top of your head feels?

Hi Isis, Bye ISIS.