Worth noting that the pilot never told his FAC that the vehicles had orange panels on them, if he had then I am certain the FAC would have called them off. The pilots failed to relay some basic information to the ground controller, it was very confused and I suspect that the controller thought they were asking about another target, probably the target they had actualy been tasked with attacking and not the new targets these gung ho bozo's had gone chasing after. If I was looking for a guilty party here I wouldn't look much further than the guy with his fingers on the trigger, what was he thinking ?
He suspected they were friendly right from the begining and let his FAC bring the situation round to what he wanted to see instead of believing what his own eyes could see. His controller did not have ' eyes on ' but the pilot did.
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