"Danger close" in Afghanistan

[ozrocker]

Warning Language.

This is what we call "Danger Close". Obviously somebody is in the deep for this.
Notice Mortar tubes in fighting position (My old MOS)
  to all the grunts.

http://www.armytimes.com/article/20140218/NEWS/302180020/Video-500-pound-friendly-bomb-dropped-too-close-soldiers-Afghanistan



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[TOMCAT21]

their pretty lucky to get out of that one. Always worked close with my 11C's. High Angle hell...<S>

[USRanger]

'Tis war.  What shall always be, shall always be.

My ol' 1st Sgt would've popped right back up & said something like "Welcome to the suck gentlemen, now Ranger the f* up!" to get us right back into what we should be doing.  I swear it.  Good man.

[BluBerry]

"According to the soldier interviewed by Funker530, the soldiers’ first sergeant had put everyone on “stand to,” ordering them into their fighting positions before the bomb was dropped. His call saved their lives, the soldier said.

“If it hadn’t been for the decision of the first sergeant ... three of our guys would have died in that wood building,” the soldier said."

Crazy, glad they are all ok. 

[Maverick]

'Tis war.  What shall always be, shall always be.

My ol' 1st Sgt would've popped right back up & said something like "Welcome to the suck gentlemen, now Ranger the f* up!" to get us right back into what we should be doing.  I swear it.  Good man.

^^    This. It's no game. Mistakes happen, you just do what you can to minimise them. What looks cut and dried at ground level and 3 MPH is a whole lot different at 15k and 400 knots. Another reason the AF needs to keep close support in mind and maintain the A-10 rather than a bevy of super zoomies.

[TOMCAT21]

That is why it is so damn hard to get CAS approved because of the inherent risks involved to friendly forces.

[USRanger]

That is why it is so damn hard to get CAS approved because of the inherent risks involved to friendly forces.

Amen.

[Puma44]

^^    This. It's no game. Mistakes happen, you just do what you can to minimise them. What looks cut and dried at ground level and 3 MPH is a whole lot different at 15k and 400 knots. Another reason the AF needs to keep close support in mind and maintain the A-10 rather than a bevy of super zoomies.

Ditto!  Before Desert Shield spun up, the USAF was actively planning to ship A-10s to the bone yard.  After that, the A-10 jocks proved it was SIMPLY THE BEST at the job.  

And, of course, they had Sierra Hotel crew chiefs like Shifty maintaining solid jets for them. 

[ozrocker]

Along with Cobras & Apaches, A-10's are the best CAS.




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