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No offense taken, brother. That movie is all most people ever think of when the FAC job is mentioned, and that's a shame.
I much prefer the several specials put out by the History Channel, most notably the one in their "Suicide Missions" series.
(No, there isn't a lot of exaggeration in that - although we lost only about 250 of nearly 4,000 total FACs, that's only because we flew near friendly forces a lot, and when the FAC went down EVERYBODY knew it. Still, we FACs were the only US troops there who had a no-questions live-or-dead $10,000 gold bounty on our heads. And bear in mind that 80% of all FAC aircraft there got shot down sooner or later!)
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