Thanks Brick.
Continues ‘Yama,’ “At our pull.. our Pave Tack died. So only a couple of seconds from pickling, we had what the ROE dictated was an abort. Since the radar was still good and had a recent good update, I felt confident that we could still drop accurately, so we did. Post-strike we found out we’d hit a little short, but with 2,000 pounders, we still did significant damage to the area with no collateral damage.
In today's age where collateral damage is far more integral to how we operate, would he have been more likely to have aborted in those circumstances, or would it be acceptable to press on?
One tanker with the remainder of Karma flight orbited for nearly another hour, hoping that 52 would somehow make it out, but eventually had to leave as well.
Poignant stuff.