Scenario: Turkey's Lightening Shield Operation

[Mustang]

I am also surprised this element did not dispose air support as F-4/16s, AirCav should be usually protected.

Great AAR. I think the idea is that this starts out as a very limited operation into Syria and the Turks don't want to escalate by sending in fast air assets. If you do that you risk drawing attention to the operation and having to conduct a huge SEAD operation. This is plausible, in 1991 the US deployed some helos to take out air defenses before the main air war began.