Close Air Support is one of those companies that exists for one reason and one reason only - to reduce (hopefully eliminate?) the incidence of so-called 'friendly fire' and collateral damage in CAS missions. In the Gulf War, 35 US service personnel lost their lives and 72 were wounded in CAS incidents. Since then, Canadian, British, French and American service personnel have continued to suffer - as have those from several other nations - from events which should, in theory, be entirely avoidable. Despite the development of far-reaching regulatory environments and increasingly detailed training scenarios, 'friendly fire' is still a problem - and the staff at Close Air Support, based in Bristol close to the UK MoD's procurement arm, being predominantly ex-forces themselves and therefore more painfully aware than the rest of us about the consequences of getting this equation wrong, are totally committed to finding effective solutions.
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机译：近距离空中支援是存在的一家公司，其原因仅出于一个原因：减少（希望消除？）在CAS任务中所谓的“友好开火”和附带损害的发生率。在海湾战争中，有35名美国服务人员丧生，另有72人在CAS事件中受伤。从那以后，加拿大，英国，法国和美国的服务人员与其他几个国家的服务人员一样，继续遭受着从理论上完全可以避免的事件的苦难。尽管发展了影响深远的法规环境和越来越详细的培训方案，“友好的开火”仍然是一个问题-位于英国国防部采购部门附近的布里斯托尔的Close Air Support的员工主要是在增强自身能力，因此，比我们其他人更痛苦地意识到弄错这个方程式的后果，完全致力于寻找有效的解决方案。
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