i'm aaron metta. for years, the military put out a monthly report, surveying the number of airstrikes in iraq, afghanistan, and syria. andrew did grand prix and sean stone explain what they found. >> air force central command keeps this law of how many bombs dropped, and they've been keeping this data pays and publicly publishing it online for some time, since the start of the war on terrorism, and these numbers used and provided to the department of defense and given to the public to provide some kind of picture of the number of combat strikes in afghanistan in operation inherent resolve. report were doing a looking into airstrikes in afghanistan, we reached out to operation resolute support, and we were given a different figure between the strike figure they had and the strike figure that was tallied in the air force de database.nd's . that kicked off our research into why there were different numbers. why did it seem there were two different measures for strike data? there happened to be a lot of c