I had the pleasure of serving in an Air Force Special Operations unit as a forward air controller for six years, and was stationed at Ft. Benning, GA. Working in the. 17th Air Support Operations Squadron (17th ASOS), I lived on Ft. Benning and trained with the unit I was attached to for all six years I was stationed there, and when they deployed I deployed.rnIn April 2003, I would have been found somewhere between Camp Doha, Kuwait, and Baghdad, Iraq. I was attached to 1/30 Battalion, 3rd Brigade with the 3rd Infantry Division, and we had been fighting our way north for about a month. Just south of the Karbala Gap, we received an intelligence report that there were tanks dug in just north of our position. Our ground commander asked if we could get aircraft overhead to eliminate the threat these tanks presented, and I was more than happy to oblige. A flight of two A-10 Warthogs answered the call, and soon I had their eyes on target and they put bombs and bullets right where I asked.
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