[Zhang Fei]

[”Life Threatening”? - every single day. I finally got hit in May’67 and spent 7 months in various hospitals - and when that blessed Medevac helicopter got to us, a kept an M26 frag grenade in my hand in case we went down.

Like I said, it was a bad area to be captured.]

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No question life at the point of the spear was always life-threatening. I was referring to nearly getting greased by friendly fire from errant friendly rounds from CAS pilots trying to dump their ordnance on the enemy while avoiding enemy fire, at a time when smart bombs hadn’t been invented, which meant going in low and slow, thereby presenting fat targets to the enemy.

[Chainmail]

You may be describing another branch of service, but Marine CAS always came in very hot, accurate, and did not miss.