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DANGER CLOSE DANGER CLOSE Tactical Air Controllers in Afghanistan and Iraq STEVE CALL Texas A&M University Press College Station Copyright ©  by Steve Call Manufactured in the United States of America All rights reserved First Edition The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z--. Binding materials have been chosen for durability. o Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Call, Steve, – Danger close : tactical air controllers in Afghanistan and Iraq / Steve Call. — st ed. p. cm. — (Texas A&M University military history series: no. ) Includes index. ISBN-: ---- (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-: --- (cloth : alk. paper) . Afghan War, —Aerial operations, American. . Iraq War, —Aerial operations, American. . Close air support—History—st century. I. Title. DS..C  .⬘—dc  To those who died in the Udairi Range bombing accident on the night of  March  Major John McNutt, New Zealand Army Staff Sergeant Richard Boudreau, United States Army Staff Sergeant Troy James Westberg, United States Army Staff Sergeant Jason M. Faley, United States Air Force Specialist Philip Michael Freligh, United States Army Specialist Jason Douglas Wildfong, United States Army May the memory of your sacrifice remain as bright as your devotion to duty. We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. george orwell ...