Aaahh! Thanks for the memory. Flying from a base during the Vietnam conflict that hardly had a jet engine anywhere except in the Superjollygreen helicopters, the general feeling about fast movers, was they couldn’t hit a bull in the ass with a base fiddle. That was a fair generalization from a base full of radial engine straight wing bombers and fighters.
Reality might have been a little different, but really close air support was the forte of the SAR “Search and Rescue” forces and they were really good when it counted which was always. Fast forward to today, with smart weapons that are so much more accurate than the iron bombs of yesteryear, and I’m not sure what the problem is, unless it is just perception.
Sounds like a Sandy talking.