The Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, welcomes gallant Nigerian Air Force (NAF) pilots of the Air Task Force (ATF), Operation LAFIYA DOLE, Maiduguri as they return from a pre-dusk mission today, 12 December 2019, after inflicting further damages on terrorists in the ongoing Operation RATTLE SNAKE. ‬The CAS, while congratulating the ATF for the successes so far recorded in the operation and commending the pilots for their dedication and courage, urged them to sustain the tempo of operations in order to completely destroy designated terrorists’ operational/logistics bases and further deny them freedom of action. ‬