re: #77 Targetpractice

There is no sane reason during peace time to send a fighter on a one-way trip, particularly when there’s no guarantee it will do a damned thing to change the situation. You don’t waste multimillion dollar jets on fool’s errands.

There is never any guarantee any airstrike will succeed, since Mr. Murphy can always turn up at the wrong time. The reason would have been to eliminate the enemy’s mortar and hopefully give our own people a chance to regroup. To be fair, I don’t actually support the idea that such a course would have been wise.