Christopher Haave: A-10s over Kosovo (illustrations removed)

unsecure—nonencrypted radio

USAFE—United States Air Forces in Europe

UTM—Universal Transverse Mercator, a map grid system

VHF-AM—radio transmitting over very high frequencies using amplitude modulation and commonly referred to as “victor”

VID—visual identification

vis—brevity term for visibility

VJ—Serb army

VMEZ—Serb army (VJ) and Serb Interior Ministry police (MUP) engagement zone

vul—scheduled periods of time when the KEZ was vulnerable to AFACs looking for and striking targets

VVI—vertical velocity indicator

Willy Pete—slang phonetic expression for 2.75-inch white-phosphorous rockets

WP—white phosphorous

Zulu—the time at the prime meridian that is used for military planning and is also known as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and Greenwich mean time (GMT)

2S1 self-propelled artillery, 112–13

20th Special Operations Squadron (SOS), 10

21st Special Operations Squadron (SOS), 10

23d Fighter Group (FG), 26, 92, 139

31st Air Expeditionary Wing (AEW), 16, 20, 25–26, 29, 68–69, 71, 311

31st Expeditionary Operations Group (EOG), 20, 26, 67

36th Stormo, Italian fighter wing, 78

40th Expeditionary Air Base Squadron (EABS), 75

40th Expeditionary Logistics Squadron (ELS), 19, 75

40th Expeditionary Operations Group (EOG), 15, 19–21, 39, 67, 71–76, 85, 100, 106, 139, 182, 242, 247

40th Expeditionary Support Squadron (ESS), 19

52d Air Expeditionary Wing (AEW), 15, 20–21, 71, 76, 83, 85, 134

52d Fighter Wing (FW), 16, 35, 39, 70, 80, 139

74th Fighter Squadron (FS), “Flying Tigers,” 11, 15, 18–21, 27, 39, 72–76, 89, 91, 96–98, 270, 273, 287, 296, 312

75th Fighter Squadron (FS), 15, 58, 97

81st Fighter Squadron (FS), “Panthers,”10, 15–16, 18, 20, 23, 26, 28, 40, 54–59, 64, 66, 68, 70–71, 73, 75, 86, 91–92, 96, 109, 126, 131, 203, 232, 244, 247, 264–67, 271, 287, 300, 311–13

103d Fighter Squadron (FS), 15, 19

104th Expeditionary Operations Group (EOG), “Killer Bees,” 15, 19–21, 313

131st Expeditionary Fighter Squadron (EFS), 11, 15, 20–21

172d Fighter Squadron (FS), 15, 19

190th Fighter Squadron (FS), 15, 19

492d Fighter Squadron (FS), 26

494th Fighter Squadron (FS), 26

510th Fighter Squadron (FS),

“Buzzards,” 16, 23, 29, 56, 67–68

555th Fighter Squadron (FS), 26

603d Air Control Squadron (ACS), 68

606th Expeditionary Air Control Squadron (EACS), 256

Adriatic Sea, 8, 23, 38, 57, 60, 68, 82, 99, 177, 180, 187–88, 194, 202, 251, 253, 273, 288, 292, 294, 312

advanced echelon (ADVON), 89

A-1E (Korean War–era fighter/Vietnam-era FAC), “Skyraider” and “Sandy,” 1, 312

A-10/OA-10 (fighter) “Thunderbolt II,” “Warthog,” and “Hog” armament, 1, 11–15, 41, 46, 58, 62, 94–95, 287

beddown, 67–80, 86–96, 99–103, 292

combat action, 36, 46, 54, 57–59, 62, 85, 112, 115–16, 124–30, 155–57, 166–69, 197–207, 214–30, 237–40, 245–48, 280–83, 288–90, 299–300

combat damage, 116–21, 261–63

defensive reaction and survivability, 53–54, 63–65, 106–7, 110–11, 116–21, 124–30, 240–43, 274–77, 283–86

design and limitations, 1, 46, 209

double-engine failure, 249–58

equipment and systems, 1, 26–27, 210–12, 249–58

lineage and nomenclature, 1–2

maintenance, 57, 90–96, 194–95, 271–72

media, 27, 132, 135, 243

performance, 29–30

ROE impact, 29, 59–60, 85, 132–33, 143–53, 157–63, 169–97, 242–43, 290–92

roles and missions, 3–11

training, 40, 84

units, 15–21

AMX (Italian fighter), 33, 110

CF-18 (Canadian fighter), “Hornet,” 32, 41, 43–45, 54, 110

E-2C, (airborne early warning), “Hawkeye,” 33, 127–28

E-3 (airborne warning and control system [AWACS]/NATO airborne early warning [NAEW]), “Magic,” 6, 9–10, 23–24, 28, 33, 73, 111–13, 116, 144, 187–88, 194, 201–4, 206–7, 219–22, 224–27, 230, 254–56, 274–77, 288

E-8 (joint surveillance, target attack radar system [Joint STARS/JSTARS]), 23, 27–28, 33, 138–39, 142, 146, 297, 304, 310

EA-6B (electronic jammer), “Prowler,” 9, 23, 28–29, 33, 106, 111, 189, 206, 277, 312

EC-130E (airborne battlefield command and control center [ABCCC]), “Moonbeam” and “Bookshelf,” 5–6, 9–10, 23–24, 28, 33–34, 38, 43, 46, 48, 51, 57, 63, 127, 141–42, 144, 146–48, 150–52, 159–61, 169–70, 172–73, 189, 201, 211–12, 219, 223, 229, 231, 235, 241–42, 245–47, 273, 286, 290, 300

EC-130H (tactical information warfare), “Compass Call,” 33

EF-18 (Spanish fighter), “Hornet,” 33, 110

F-4G (defense suppression), “Wild Weasel,” 68, 307

F-14 (fighter/airborne forward air controller), “Tomcat,” 8, 32–34, 167–68, 110, 210, 242, 296–97, 313

F-15A and F-15C (air superiority fighters), “Eagle,” 38, 221

F-15E (air superiority fighter/precision attack), “Strike Eagle,” 5, 23, 26, 28–29, 33, 41–43, 46–47, 54, 109

F-16AM (Dutch fighter), “Fighting Falcon,” 23, 33

F-16CG, (fighter/FAC), “Fighting Falcon,” 8, 11, 16, 23, 26, 28, 32–33, 91, 110, 139, 210, 216–17, 222, 237, 307, 311, 313

F-16CJ (defense suppression), “Fighting Falcon,” 9, 21, 23, 26, 28–29, 33, 69, 85, 106, 116, 189, 216–17, 226–27, 230, 275, 312

F/A-18 (fighter), “Hornet,” 33, 65, 110, 128, 168

F-84 (Korean War–era fighter), “Thunderjet,” 1

F-84F (Korean War–era fighter), “Thunderstreak,” 1

F-100F (fighter/FAC), “Hun” and “Misty,” 170

F-104 (Italian fighter), “Starfighter,” 78, 313

F-105 (fighter), “Thud,” 1

F-111F (fighter), “Vark,” 307

F-117 (stealth fighter), “Nighthawk,” 11, 15, 21, 25, 27, 55, 83, 85, 95, 109, 135, 214–15, 266, 312

GR-7 (British fighter), “Harrier,” 23, 33, 41, 48–49, 51–52, 54, 57, 69, 74, 78, 110, 139–40, 152, 154, 200, 274, 313

Hunter (unmanned aerial vehicle [UAV]), 33, 138

KC-135/KC-10 (tankers), “Stratotanker/Extender,” 9–10, 25, 28, 33–34, 37, 41–43, 47, 60, 64, 69, 111, 113, 123–25, 127, 138, 155, 158, 160, 163–65, 171–73, 175, 187–89, 192, 194, 200–201, 206, 209, 214–17, 220–22, 224–25, 233, 236–37, 239, 241–42, 245, 247, 258, 273, 307

Laser Predator (unmanned aerial vehicle [UAV]), 33, 212

MH-53J (special operations helicopter), “Pave Low,” 10, 33, 215, 220

MH-60 (special operations helicopter), “Pave Hawk,” 33, 220

MiG-21 (Vietnam-era Serbian fighter), “Fishbed,” 310

MiG-29 (Serbian fighter), “Fulcrum,” 221–22

P-47 (World War II–era fighter), “Thunderbolt,” 1

Predator (unmanned aerial vehicle [UAV]), 33, 141–42, 211–12, 247–48, 300

Super Etendards (French fighter), 23, 32, 110

TF-16 (Turkish fighter), “Fighting Falcon,” 33, 241

Tornado ECR (German electronic combat and reconnaissance), 32, 106

Tornado IDS (Italian ground-attack fighter), 32–33, 74, 78, 106, 110, 313

Air Combat Command (ACC), 70

air interdiction, 3–5, 26, 303–4

air and space expeditionary force (AEF), 92

air strike control, 6

air tactical missile systems (ATACMS), 304

air tasking order (ATO), 33–34, 36, 51, 77, 81, 99, 144, 296

airborne forward air controller (AFAC, FAC, and FAC[A]), 2–4, 6–8, 11, 13–14, 16, 18, 23–24, 26, 29, 31–39, 41, 44, 47, 55, 57, 60, 62, 72–73, 81, 95, 105–6, 109–11, 116, 124, 126, 128, 137, 139, 141–44, 146–48, 150, 152–54, 158, 160, 164, 166–68, 171–72, 175–76, 195, 200–201, 210–11, 231–34, 236, 240, 242, 244, 248, 259–63, 273–74, 279, 290–92, 296–97, 299–300, 303–4, 307, 310–14