The Korean soldier was puzzled momentarily. But instead of saying “Wings level,” he said, “One’s in,” meaning his aircraft, no. Now, with Kim watching his trainee, the F-16 pilot roared into his approach. Jefferson Panton, Special Forces Detachment-Korea commander. Most trainees were from the South Korean army’s special forces, but two were from Korea’s Naval Special Warfare Brigade, similar to the U.S. Its rationale: Should South Korea’s elite forces ever be at war, they’d need to know how to call in airstrikes in Korean and English, the language of their U.S. 7th Air Force members, spent two weeks teaching 30 elite South Korean special operations troops how to call in airstrikes in English and call in strikes with aircraft equipped with the joint direct attack mention, or JDAM, smart bomb.
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