[Cannoneer No. 4]

Hovering up above we had Army Kiowa and Apache attack helicopters engaging the enemy on rooftops with Hellfire missiles and rockets.

I believe he is a Corporal or a Specialist and probably is not trained to call in air strikes.

[finnman69]

Holy crap, I just read this post. This maade the movie Black Hawk Down look like a cakewalk.

http://cbftw.blogspot.com/2004/08/men-in-black.html

[jerrydavenport]

i was wondering if the marines have been using their AV-8b harriers any place.

I suppose they could never replace attack helicopters. but would harriers make sense with special forces detachments?

[ma bell]

He should be able to read the grids and coords. All Marines in my unit were trained to call in Air and Arty, mini-ANGLICO.

Does not say that all Marines were capable of doing it on "spot, (walk it in) target".