A couple of points:

It wouldn't take much of a search to find tapes of guys who employed A/G with a shaky talk on in a danger-close troops in contact situation, and were right on target, resulting in saved lives and dead bad guys. In the big scheme of things, it's combat and we can't be 100% all the time. If your standard is 100% then in the above situation, friendlies die and bad guys prevail. You're going to have some losses in a big operation.

Second, the USAF has mis-managed the FAC/JTAC career field in ludicrous way. We no longer have credible A-FAC capability. The world is truly upside down in that we've invested tons of time/money/effort to create F-16 AFACs and very few A-10 pilots are AFAC. WTFO? Afghanistan and Iraq are begging for a dedicated AFAC platform like an A-10 or OV-10. That would go a long way to improving CAS in the USAF in general.

USAF pilots have done a legendary job of avoiding the ALO career field. How many airline guys quit the USAF to avoid an ALO tour? Consequently the JTAC career field has been led by the only officers the USAF could pin down at the time. It's ALWAYS been considered a BAD deal to be an ALO and the people we send to that career field reflect that.

I could easily get on a rant on this subject but I'll leave it at that.