theboardwalkpodcast OP t1_ja6a4qm wrote
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Kyle - Only guy I’d call a hero was an airman on board one of our ISR planes. They were setting up a strike on a high value target. Everything was ready. They’d been after this guy for months and wanted him dead. They clear the strike on this dude’s car. Missile goes off the rails time to target is stated. This airman sees one or two kids in the backseat. Calls for a strike cancel and they send the missile to another laser on the side of the mountain. People were pissed bc they didn’t get their guy but he saved two kids lives that day. Absolute hero.
AutisticFloridaMan t1_ja6b6fl wrote
Holy shit, this actually made me a little emotional. How did he see the kids in the backseat? Did he use FLIR?
theboardwalkpodcast OP t1_ja6hdaz wrote
Yeah it was on FLIR like normal but he saw someone moving in the backseat and then eventually a couple of kids got out. Wild.
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