Strafing run
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When a fighter rolls in and points right at you, it's time to put down the camera and run at a 90 degree angle!!
No, just keep filming, it's just like it is on TV, the bullets just hit the ground on either side of you and you get to save the day.... seriously, just keep filming...
Wow!! That was incredible footage. It looked like two different aircraft a Mig-29 and a Mig-23 (maybe 27?).
Dunno about you but if i were FAC (let alone simple grunt) and seeing footage in "live feed via Mk1 eyeball" as in above i don't think i'd be double checking my grids and comms to find out what exactly flyboy has in mind as i would be hauling ass in as KY said general away direction
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The marines were pretty good at calling in air on their own but the army seemed to struggle more. If jtac was there all is usually good, but if not many army units would ask for something that would get them killed, like a 2000lber at 100 meters, etc. Not their fault, the AF and Army never trained together. First time I talked to someone in green on the radio was in combat. How dumb was that. By the tail end of the war things were a lot better as you can imagine.
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Odd, I didn't hear a whole lot of aloha snackbar...maybe it was because they were on the receiving end. I thought I heard one though. Maybe the one I heard was because they lived through the attack.
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