CLOSE AIR SUPPORT (UNCLASSIFIED)

Here's a great video of how to kill the bad guys with air support...submitted by Linda D.

The attached video was filmed by some Air Force Joint Tactical Air Controllers (JTAC) in Tal Afar, west of Mosul , in Iraq .  A marine unit got pinned down in the street. They set their video camera on the bumper of their armored HUM-V, which they were using for cover. Keep an eye on the opposing van parked just down the street.   On the audio you can hear them shooting back and forth. The rounds you can hear are from the Marines, and the ones you hear pinging against the side of the vehicle with no accompanying pop are from the bad guys.  When the Marine says they just fired the "rifle," it means an F-16 aircraft just launched a Maverick missile. You can hear it come in and see it strike the vehicle the bad guys were using for cover.

Talk about pinpoint accuracy! End of story...for the bad guys.

Wikileaks Video

Here's the video...you decide, it's a real attack or murder?  Me, I think the gunners where overly cautious.  I'dda blaster the entire area.  But them I'm a blood thirsty former Marine who had 17 guys from my bootcamp platoon murdered in Beirut in 1983...



Reuters evidently "embeded" a couple of reporters with the "insurgents" and is now complaining that those "poor journalists" got wasted by US forces...tough shit Reuters.  You put someone in harms way and are now complaining they they were shot at?  Doesn't work that way guys.  Follow the link for an excellent commentary by GI's on what it's like...but if you take children into an area where they could be shot...then it's your fault if they are.