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	Close air support - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Close air support (abbreviated as CAS) is the use of military aircraft in a ground attack role against targets in close proximity to friendly forces, in direct support of and requiring detailed integration with the fire and movement of ground troops.
		The term is used to distinguish from air interdiction, the use of aircraft to attack ground target not in close proximity to friendly units.
		The Air liaison officer or ALO was born.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Close_air_support (3163 words)

	Direct Air Support Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		World War II Okinawa was the culmination of the development of air support doctrine in the Pacific," declared Colonel Vernon E. Megee, commander of the Landing Force Air Support Units during the campaign.
		Photo of the Air Support Section of the 1st Marine Division at Hagaru-ri during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir.
		Marine Tactical Air Control Squadron 2 (MTACS-2), the precursor to today's MASS-2 operated an Air Support section and conducted operations during the Korean War at the Pusan Perimeter, Battle of Inchon, Battle of Seoul, Battle of Chosin Reservoir, the East Central Front, and the Western Front.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dasc (2969 words)

	Close Air Support And The Marine Air/Ground Team
		Close air support is defined by JCS Pub 1 as: Air attacks against hostile targets which are in close proximity to friendly forces and which require detailed integration of each air mission with the fire and movement of those forces.
		Their basic method of employing close air support is as an emergency supporting arm when all other resources have failed and the predicted aircraft losses are justified by the situation.
		Considering the extensive air operations conducted by all four countries in these conflicts, the almost total lack of close air support could lead one to believe that this mission for aircraft is in fact in the "too hard box".
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/1984/HSD.htm (2993 words)

	AIR Client Support - Modeling
		AIR natural catastrophe models simulate the physical characteristics of natural hazards and project their effects on property, including residential, commercial and industrial facilities, and automobiles.
		AIR scientists and engineers have developed these sophisticated computer models for all major natural hazards, including hurricanes, earthquakes, extratropical cyclones (winter storms), tornadoes, hailstorms and flood, for more than 40 countries throughout North America, the Caribbean, South America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.
		AIR models are meticulously validated at every stage of development and model results are calibrated using data from historical events.
	www.air-worldwide.com /_public/html/catmodeling.asp (341 words)

	WWII Close Air Support - North Africa
		The XII Air Support Command with Patton in the Western Task Force could not get Army Air Forces aircraft off the carriers that were carrying them to the invasion shore and into action until after the surrender at Casablanca.
		Supporting American air elements, including the 60th Troop Carrier Group (C-47s), 14th Fighter Group (P- 38s), and 15th Bombardment Squadron (A-20s), were employed by the Eastern Air Command within a few weeks.
		Close air support in terms of defensive covers continued, but most air missions were given to bombing the supply line and hitting shipping and air bases.
	www.usaaf.net /has/jops/torch.htm (1601 words)

	Police Air Support
		Air Support for ground-based law enforcement resources can dramatically increase the safety of officers working in the streets, the effectiveness of the police response in fighting crime, and consequently, the security and well-being of the community.
		Air Support officers would be able to locate stolen vehicles more readily than ground units and, if the suspects attempted to flee, the vehicle could be followed by the helicopter instead of ground units pursuing.
		In fact, based on their observations of other agencies' air units assisting our department, some residents have expressed to staff the belief that they were seeing the City's Air Support Unit and were surprised to learn this was not the case.
	www.crimewise.com /library/asu.html (11309 words)

	U.S. Naval Institute Resources: Close Air Support: A Primer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		He is the author of The Warthog and the Close Air Support Debate, forthcoming from the Naval Institute Press in June.
		This primer was created 09 April 2003 to assist the general public in understanding the basic concepts and complications of close air support.
		Close air support, or CAS as it is known, is an aerial attack mission flown against enemy ground forces that are close enough to friendly forces to require detailed coordination before commencing the attack.
	www.usni.org /resources/CAS/campbell_close_air_support_a_primer.htm (809 words)

	Responsive Air Support
		Current discussions on responsibilities for air interdiction targeting, use and meaning of the fire support coordination line, and composition of the joint targeting boards and the Joint Force Air Component Commander's staff stem from efforts to increase responsiveness.
		Although US airpower in the region was increasing, the ability to use it to support these land forces was limited by their unfamiliarity with the concepts of close air support (CAS), fire support coordination lines (FSCLs), and air request nets.
		During the air campaign, US Army units in Central Command had moved to the western flank of the coalition in the "Hail Mary" maneuver and a theater air-control system for CAS was in place and had been tested.
	www.afa.org /magazine/perspectives/desert_storm/0293support.asp (2837 words)

	Close-air Support Mission Nabs Terrorists - DefendAmerica News Article
		Both airmen are part of the 18th Expeditionary Air Support Operations Group that provides direct support to TACPs, a unique class of airmen who embed directly with Army units to coordinate close-air support missions.
		While the Air Support Operations Center airmen exhort the most effort on immediate requests from these ground units, many of the close-air support missions are preplanned.
		Whether the close-air support missions in Iraq are part of premission planning or as a result of emergencies on the battlefield, the ASOC is always focused on the primary mission of defeating terrorism, one foiled plan at a time.
	www.defendamerica.mil /articles/aug2005/a083005la1.html (511 words)

	DefenseLINK News: Air Guardsmen Detail Iraqi Freedom Close-air Support (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Kennedy, the commander of the Michigan Air National Guard's 110th Operations Group, knew the mission could be an enormous asset in the war against the regime of Saddam Hussein.
		On April 9, Air Force Maj. Scott Cuel was called for an emergency close-air support mission in support of Marines in the center of Baghdad.
		There were other aircraft in the close-air support queue, but they carried larger bombs that would probably have killed as many Americans as Iraqis.
	www.defenselink.mil /news/Jul2003/n07162003_200307165.html (601 words)

	604th Air Support Operations Squadron
		The 604th ASOS is responsible to the Commander, Air Component Command (CACC) for training and maintaining all assigned assets in a high state of readiness to support theater air operations from either a fixed (2ID bunker) or mobile Air Support Operations Center (ASOC) elements.
		The 604th air support operations squadron intelligence section is responsible for providing time sensitive contingency/exercise and peacetime intelligence data to key squadron personnel in support of operations as tasked by the commander, air component command (CACC).
		TACPs are Air Force elements attached to Army maneuver units from brigade to division, and provide the Army commanders immediate close air support to their fielded combat units.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/usaf/604asos.htm (1681 words)

	Air Support
		Our mission: The role of the Air Support Unit is to support the field deputies with a quality airborne asset, designed to enhance criminal apprehension and provide for officer safety.
		Other functions include search and rescue, pro-active patrol, narcotic interdiction, and airborne support to the various police departments located within the county.
		"Air One" is one of the MD 500E helicopters currently in use.
	www.co.kern.ca.us /sheriff/air.htm (162 words)

	Close Air Support - Korean War 50th Anniversary - USAF Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Air Force aircraft of all kinds supported ground troops in Korea throughout the war.
		In spite of problems with aircraft, equipment and communication between services, close air support missions were vital to the success of UN efforts.
		Close air support missions, which destroy enemy targets close to ground troops, require a high level of communication between air and ground forces to prevent accidental casualties.
	www.wpafb.af.mil /museum/history/korea50/k50-5.htm (238 words)

	BATTLEFIELD AIR SUPPORT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Though air attack-undoubtedly reduced the amount of supplies that got down the trail, it never succeeded either in stopping the flow or in generating losses so extensive as to compromise the ability of the Vietcong to come to battle.
		Air strikes on friendlies were an all-too-common occurrence in the Second World War (and appeared in earlier and later wars as well, though not to the same degree); A-36 dive-bombers, supposedly "precision" weapons, proved notorious in this regard during the Sicilian campaign.
		In contemporary discussions with "ground" and "air" people--regardless of the country--the ground officers generally have little faith in the abilities of their own air force to prevent an enemy air force from devastating them and to undertake any sort of equally devastating attack upon enemy ground forces.
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/apj/2spr90.html (6437 words)

	A-X Close Air Support Project - US Air Force Museum Attack Aircraft Virtual Aircraft Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The US Air Force strategic doctrine of the 1950's and 1960's was based upon the mass retaliation and mutually assured destruction theories of nuclear warfare.
		Interservice rivalry was particularly intense during this time, but the USAF persisted because of the role "...to furnish close combat and logistic air support to the Army..." was outlined in the Unified Command structure publication (JCS 2) giving the CAS mission responsibility to the Air Force.
		The need for a Close Air Support and ground attack aircraft designed specifically for those roles was apparent and in the spring of 1970, the AX System Program Office (SPO) was established at the Aeronautical Systems Division at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.
	www.wpafb.af.mil /museum/research/attack/a6/a6-10.htm (723 words)

	Close Call for Close Air Support? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This article argues that the air force should seriously consider a replacement much earlier than that and that the replacement should be specifically designed for the CAS environment.
		Back in the 1960s the air force concluded that a CAS aircraft should have: the ability to operate from short, underdeveloped airfields; high reliability and maintainability; a large weapons load including an anti-armor capability; long range and endurance; a speed of at least 350 knots; maneuverability; and low cost.
		In the short term to give the USAF a competent close air support capability in the near future in environments that could include mountainous regions, at the very least the A-10 would have to undergo major modifications.
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/cc/pustam.html (2442 words)

	Air support for 1st Bn 6th Inf, US Army, Vietnam
		Air Groups 12 and 13 of the 1st Marine Air Wing provided support.
		An example of a tactical air request format from 1970 is contained in the Regulars Rules p.
		Photos of an air strike several KM from the positions of D/1-6 Inf in 1970.
	hometown.aol.com /old16inf/CAS.html (1215 words)

	Air Support (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The XIXth Tactical Air Command was directed to cooperate with the XII US-Corps.
		The request for air support was forwarded immediately.
		Except this air attack there was no further air support for the Task Force Baum.
	www.taskforcebaum.de /tfborg/airsup.html (250 words)

	MANEUVER AIR SUPPORT (MAS) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The introduction of nuclear weapons in 1945 reinforced a long held view that the best use of air power is attacking those critical strategic nodes which a military commander chooses to believe are essential for his enemy to continue fighting.
		Although the use of nuclear weapons was unlikely, the orientation of air forces toward deep strike established a mindset and doctrines which carried over to the employment of air-delivered conventional weapons.
		MAS is very different from CAS (close air support) which has become a highly controlled alleged air-substitute for artillery fire and will, in the future, be delivered from remote locations well beyond the grunt's view on the battlefield.
	www.combatreform.com /mas.htm (9268 words)

	Equipment Matchups: Air Support (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Currently one of three Asian air forces with AWACS capability (the others being Japan and Singapore), the ROCAF has effectively doubled the target detection range and increased warning time from 3 minutes to 25 minutes.
		Its main radar is capable of detecting targets up to 350 miles away, track up to 2000 targets and direct 40 fighters to intercept.
		It primarily supports tactical air operations but also can provide jamming support to ground force operations.
	www.emeraldesigns.com /matchup/support.htm (918 words)

	AIR Client Support
		AIR has been conducting software users group meetings since 1990.
		AIR's user training program includes visits by AIR software support personnel to the offices of our clients (on-site), as well as regularly scheduled training classes held at our Boston and London offices (off-site).
		All AIR software applications are designed to be reliable, easy to learn, and efficient to use.
	www.air-worldwide.com /_public/html/client_support.asp (460 words)

	Close Air Support (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		It is support of the close-in fight, which means the ordnance that's delivered falls not only on the enemy but close to friendly forces as well.
		It is important to examine the performance in executing close-air support missions in Afghanistan because CAS is one of the defining expressions of joint operations at the tactical level of war.
		Air-ground cooperation (AGC) is the interaction of air and ground forces to ensure the synchronization, coordination, and integration of air operations with the joint commander's campaign plan.
	www.au.af.mil /au/aul/bibs/closeair.htm (1364 words)

	Air Support (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		June 2, 2006 10:49 AM The Tulsa Police Department Air Support Unit consists of two helicopters.
		The Night sun spotlight used by Air Support is capable of producing 30 million candlepower of light.
		This light is used during search and rescue operations and to provide a broad area of illumination for officers on the ground.
	www.tulsapolice.org /airsupport.html (179 words)

	Boeing: Integrated Defense Systems - Logistics Support Systems - Air Force One - Air Force One Home
		Air Force One is a Boeing 747-200B that has been modified to meet presidential requirements.
		The aircraft is known by the radio call sign used when the president is aboard: Air Force One.
		Principal differences between Air Force One and the standard Boeing 747 include state-of-the-art navigation, electronic and communications equipment; its interior configuration and furnishings; self-contained baggage loader; and front and aft air-stairs.
	www.boeing.com /defense-space/military/af1 (264 words)

	Fire Support Coordination: Tactical Air Support - Part 1
		TACAIR support available to ground commanders in the RVN far exceeds that which has been available in any past conflict in which US forces have been involved.
		A most important type of air support, other than TACAIR, in the RVN is the massive B-52 strikes in a saturation bombing role.
		The ALO attends the brigade commander's meetings, briefs on air activity in the area of interest, and advises on the use and capabilities of TACAIR.
	www.gruntonline.com /US_Forces/US_Artillery/arty13.htm (1391 words)

	25th Air Support Operations Squadron prepares to deploy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Airmen are tactical air controllers from the 25th Air Support Operations Squadron.
		4/17/2006 - WHEELER ARMY AIR FIELD, Hawaii (AFPN) -- Tactical air controllers from the 25th Air Support Operations Squadron are practicing basic close-combat skills to prepare themselves for an upcoming deployment in support of the war on terrorism.
		Although TACPs are in the Air Force, they spend a lot of time with the Army.
	www.af.mil /news/story.asp?id=123019118 (371 words)

	Welcome to Air Support International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Welcome to Air Support International, a world recognized distributor of FAA-PMA replacement camshafts for piston-driven airplane engines.
		Air Support International (ASI) offers proven quality piston aircraft engine parts, proven in testing and in millions of hours in the air.
		Copyright © 2004 Air Support International, Inc. All rights reserved.
	www.airsupport-inc.com (163 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Iraq air support 'failed UK troops'
		Concerns about the way air power was used to support British soldiers in Iraq have been raised by the Conservative Party.
		Close air support is important to advancing troops, allowing them to call in air strikes on enemy positions which threaten them.
		I think it is entirely natural that they would regard their main effort as the attack on Baghdad and that the slow and painstaking approach to Basra by the British forces was a secondary issue to them.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/2937526.stm (410 words)

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