wow.....thats reality for ya.

 

Here's the tidbit from that film. It's part of the harsh reality of war and falls into ROE.

This is an F16 doing CAS during the recent fighting in Fallujah. As you know we have been bombing insurgent "safe houses" with some sucess recently. This F16 was on such a mission, to hit a house with an LGB, when 30+ insurgents left the building en masse to hurry to a nearby engagement with US Marines which had been going on for hours. The pilot communicates with an FAC either in the air or on the ground, and changes the flight path of the bomb while it is in the air. You can clearly see the "L" flashing in the MFD, and "TGP" is selected.

They were en-route to hit a hard target and got radio confirmation from ground troops that they were about to be engaged by this hostile group of men. They were all insurgents trying to kill our men on the ground in Fallujah.