I assume it was the same in the USAAF and USN at that time?


Quite unsurprisingly, it occurs today, and even tends to offend some. During
Operation ANACONDA, I was given coords by an ETAC under fire. As part of our
procedures, my offense team plotted out the coords and they landed smack inside
a small town depicted on the JOG. Since I could hear some of the chaos and gun
fire in the back ground every time the ETAC keyed the mike, I felt bad asking
him, but ROE required me to verify he knew about the town. He responded; "the
target *is* the town, I'm taking heavy fire from it...level the f%$#ing town".
I came back with a quick "roger that", which was followed quickly by someone
saying "hey...watch the language on the radio". To this day I'm not sure who it
was, it could have been another jet this guy was controlling, it could have
been the ASOC or it could have been another ETAC trying to coordinate fire
control measures with "my" ETAC via UHF. It gave me a chuckle all the way home.
Hey...let's watch our language while we slaughter other human beings.


BUFDRVR

"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"