User blog comment:Griever0311/Ask A Marine Part Deux/@comment-1260687-20100318082318

@Desert Rat: We worked fairly closely with air support, but it was mostly Marine aviators bringing down hell for us. We usually had a few Cobra gunships on station in our AO, and more often than not, there were Hornets zipping around; those guys seemed a little less formal and bound by protocol than the zoomies did. My last boss worked as part of the enlisted component of a JSTAR, and he explained the normal Army/Air Force air support coordination protocol, and it didn't seem like it would do much more than make an already difficult ground situation even shittier. We liked our own to take care of us.


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