I really enjoyed the CAS missions in FAOBC and FAOAC. I always trained my FDCs well in setting up air corridors. The A-10 is still my favorite aircraft.AF-Odin wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 7:54 am Thanks Oljames, but think we will pass on the offer. However, spent a good bit of time with you Redlegs, some of it teaching emergency CAS to OBC students. You want high adventure, this was our normal training exercise. Six gun 155 battery firing on target with 2LT students manning every position on he guns; 2LT students manning every position in the FDC; 2LT OBC student on the radio with a pair of F-16s loaded with 500# bombs and briefing them and describing target. Task for that FA OBC student was to bring the F-16s into the target, safely shift 155 fire at appropriate time, fire a mark round at appropriate time, clear F-16s to attack, get them off target and shift 155 fire back. We Airdales had to pray that the student could do math and read a watch. Only got scared one time and that was why we always had another radio to call abort.
I spent 6 years in Joint Taskforce/JOC. I had always trusted my AF buddies, but learned to admire and appreciate them more. To this day, I can count on the fingers of one hand the colonels I would gladly follow into combat. One of those was a Joint Taskforce commander who flew back-seat in an F4 in Vietnam.
Give 'em The Gun!
