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| Keywords: Operation Odyssey Dawn - Last 12 Hours - 24 March 2011.jpg BadJPEG Operation Odyssey Dawn in Libya 2011 Libya Situation as of 24 March 2011 US Vice Admiral Bill Gortney Director of The Joint Staff On the slide to my left you will -- you will see a quick snapshot of what we have been doing the last day or so And I ™d like to just point out that the data I ™m going to provide is as of noon Eastern Standard Time today As you can see the coalition naval and Air Forces have been busy striking fixed targets and some of Colonel Gadhafi ™s maneuver forces along the coastline and near the cities of Tripoli Misrata and Ajdabiya Ships and subs at sea have launched another 14 Tomahawk cruise missiles at targets ashore and hitting an integrated air defense site near Sebha in the south and a Scud missile garrison near Tripoli We flew a total of 130 coalition sorties 49 of which were strike-related meaning they were designed to hit a designated target Of those total sorties roughly half were flown by pilots from partner nations In fact nearly all some 75 percent of the combat air patrol missions in support of the no-fly zone are now being executed by our coalition partners On Sunday that figure was less than 10 percent http //www defense gov/transcripts/transcript aspx transcriptid 4798 http //www defense gov/news/d20110324pptslides pdf 2011-03-24 U S Department of Defense Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense Public Affairs PD-USGov Operation Odyssey Dawn Maps of the 2011 Libyan civil war | ||||
