Here here, Dan. You KNOW I'm going to agree.
I didn't get to drop ordnance, but I did have the final say on what was to be dropped, by whom, and exactly where. And if it went to hell, it was my fault, period. As Dan said, when you have troops fighting at bayonet range, you do not drop a weapon with a 100-yard kill radius. You need sniper-quality delivery in volumes like a hailstorm.
Air to mud and CAS are tough, perhaps THE toughest job to be done from the air. There likely is no perfect answer, but attack helos and purpose-built CAS fighters like the A-10 are the closest we've come so far.
