Hit My Virtual Smoke
By Colonel David C. Fuquea, USMC
Close air support has long meant that the ordnance arrived courtesy of manned aircraft. What if . . . ground forces exploited the growing capabilities of cruise missiles and called for them instead? Forward Air Controllers like Bravo/1/23's Corporal Dan Benn in Fallujah would be keying in coordinates rather than talking with aircrews. But if the results are the same. . . .
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Col. Fuquea, an infantry officer, is the Deputy Commandant of Midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. He served as a platoon leader and company commander, spent two years with the Royal Marines, and commanded the 1st Battalion, Sixth Marines. He earned a Master of Arts degree in Military History from Duke University and is a graduate of the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island.
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