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Photo Page Serb artillery after an A-10 AFAC attack . . . . . . . 143 Fuel trucks destroyed by Captain McDonough . . 173 A-10 as seen from the tanker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Flat Face radar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 A1C Jerry Herron replenishes the A-10’s 30 mm ammunition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 EOD personnel prepare to “safe” a jammed GAU-8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 Rock star Joan Jett is shown the Maverick missile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Giraffe air-defense-system radar . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 Crew chief cleaning the canopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Weapons troop inspecting an IIR Maverick and IR illumination rockets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 Capt Meegs Meger gets ready to take off in the rain at Aviano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 Vega 31’s boots with caked-on Serbian mud . . . . 230 Sandys involved in the Vega 31 rescue . . . . . . . . 231 SA-6 Gainful . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 APC destroyed by A-10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238 Capt Beau Easterling straps in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Lt Col Coke Koechle getting ready for another mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244 xi
Photo Page Capt Rip Woodard and aircraft 956 . . . . . . . . . . . 258 Lt JAKS Duckworth following a combat mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Panther taxiing at Gioia del Colle AB, Italy . . . . . 264 Crew chief performing an early morning preflight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 Tables 1 Aircraft Involved in KEZ Operations . . . . . . . . . . 32 xii
Page 3 and 4: A-10s over Kosovo The Victory of Ai
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Page 7 and 8: Chapter Page Getting There from Her
Page 9 and 10: Illustrations Figure Page A-10 miss
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Page 17 and 18: theater of operations. Covering tha
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Page 21 and 22: Maj Peter R. Brotherton Maj Pete
Page 23 and 24: Capt Andrew J. Gebara Maj David E.
Page 25 and 26: Lt Col Mark E. Koechle Lt Col Mark
Page 27 and 28: Col Alan E. Thompson Col Al “Moos
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Page 31 and 32: 8 April Capt JD McDonough destroys
Page 33 and 34: 11 May An A-10 AFAC is hit beneath
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A-10s OVER KOSOVO At the beginning
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A-10s OVER KOSOVO That day’s five
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A-10s OVER KOSOVO the prior AFACs o
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A-10s OVER KOSOVO NATO authorities
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Force, which the reader can use alo
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of 30 by 30 NM squares known as “
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sponded to sporadic infringements b
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Serbian action against the Kosovars
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success and combined to provide a g
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ation in Europe (OSCE) had agreed t
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GAU-8 GPS Guard hard deck hardball
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early warning [NAEW]), “Magic,”
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close air support (CAS), 1-4, 6, 14
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