Joint terminal attack controller
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Sep 26, 2026
Brent TuckerHOST
We need to land an assault.
Brent TuckerHOST
It is safe to say that John Chapman, being the JTAC, the c- the controller of this element, would've heard that and would've heard assault over and over and over again and would've ran off the bird assaulting.
Brent TuckerHOST
But then again, what you hear on the radio doesn't dictate, you know, from, from headquarters, doesn't dictate what you do.
Brent TuckerHOST
Your team leader that you're assigned to dictates what you do.
TrentHOST
Yeah.
TrentHOST
Is he allowed to say they're hot as a, a not JTAC or
JaredHOST
he was though.
JaredHOST
That's the funny thing is he was, he was one of those guys.
JaredHOST
Yeah.
JaredHOST
And, uh, he was the quality that just goes to the fact that reiterate JTAC is a qualification, not a job.
JaredHOST
So yes, there are seals that are JTAC qualified.
JaredHOST
There are green berets that are JTAC qualified.
Mike JonesGUEST
And so the a bit- the idea is whoever we're working with, Army, Marines, Navy, uh, whoever, we're gonna advise you on your options of air power, right? How c- what can the Air Force do for you? Then we're gonna assist you in implementing those resources into your mission planning.
Mike JonesGUEST
I'm sure you've worked with JTACs, for example.
Mike JonesGUEST
And then finally, uh, we control.
Mike JonesGUEST
So we also are JTACs, and we will control those aircraft and put those effects on target, whether it be a Type 3 control, like through a talk, or whether it be on the ground, um, boots on the ground with, attached with the team, um, you know, doing all the cool guy stuff.
Mike JonesGUEST
So it's a very broad field.
Mike JonesGUEST
You have guys working the talk, and then you got, uh, you got guys in the field attached with units.
Mike JonesGUEST
Um, just wonderful operators.
Mike JonesGUEST
Uh, just great guys.
Malcolm NanceGUEST
Do not think that the United States does not have special operations forces there designating targets, calling in combat air control because the Saudis don't.
Malcolm NanceGUEST
The Saudis don't have JTACs, Joint Tactical, Joint Terminal Air Controllers, the guys who are calling in the airstrikes.
Malcolm NanceGUEST
They don't.
Malcolm NanceGUEST
So if you can get eyes on them or even get a U.S. drone cell to designate those targets from whether they're in Bahrain or not in Bahrain, whether they're someplace in Saudi Arabia or whether it's having SOF on the ground or even CIA paramilitary officers, we're all former SOF anyway.
MarkPANELIST
As
AaronPANELIST
a JTAC controller, what do you feel like, how do you feel about the recent events of John Chapman going around?
MarkPANELIST
Oh, dude, I don't want to talk about that.
MarkPANELIST
Who's John Chapman?
AaronPANELIST
So they're able to land down.
AaronPANELIST
The crew chief was saying, hey, we lost somebody.
AaronPANELIST
And so it took time for them to get into the Chinook to pick up the same SEALs and the one JTAC, John Chapman, to pick him back up and take him back to the top of the ridge.
AaronPANELIST
When they finally landed, the SEAL team ended up going in like, I would say they were within 15, 20 meters of each other, but John Chapman went one way, and the SEAL team went the other way, both covering fire up the hill to get to Neil Roberts for the most part, but there was a little bunker there.
Kyle SeraphinGUEST
He had some downtime and they said, we'd like you to be part of our population study of special operators.
Kyle SeraphinGUEST
He was a qualified JTAC, TACP.
Kyle SeraphinGUEST
on the special operations side of the house, worked in AFSOC.
Kyle SeraphinGUEST
And they wanted him to be in this tier of guys.
Ryan BodenheimerGUEST
And so we got to talk a lot because we were talking about how do we use this technology to give us higher fidelity data? How do we interact with...
Ryan BodenheimerGUEST
with you having maybe more information than most JTACs would have.
Ryan BodenheimerGUEST
And can we be clear type three? If we get type three means it's just like weapons free.
Ryan BodenheimerGUEST
You know, like if you have high fidelity data on these guys, can we be clear type three early? Little conversations like that made us way more lethal.
30 MINS LATER
Mike RitlandHOST
You
Ryan BodenheimerGUEST
know, I could have been more patient.
Ryan BodenheimerGUEST
Hey, JTAC got it understood, but we want to have a two ship on station and that'd be totally JTACs get that.
Ryan BodenheimerGUEST
Yeah.
Ewan LevickHOST
They never provided air support to Yemeni government troops that they're supporting, despite their own support from 200 embedded U.S. military personnel, as well as the personal intervention of the commander of U.S. Central Command.
Ewan LevickHOST
And what happened was the Saudis failed to embed what's called a JTAC, or a Joint Terminal Attack Controller, which is essentially someone on the ground who directs airstrikes, or a fire support officer, which do the same for artillery and naval guns.
Ewan LevickHOST
The Saudis didn't embed any of their own people in with the factions they're supporting in Yemen to direct their air power.
Ewan LevickHOST
So there were no Saudi strikes on the Houthis who were able to undertake this incredibly fast offensive operation.
Rusty BradleyGUEST
And it was a Marine Corps Cobra going in on a target target.
Rusty BradleyGUEST
And there's an SF guy, two SF guys standing there talking, and one of them has a JTAC.
Rusty BradleyGUEST
And the guy said, hey, man, is it weird that I've got a boner? And the guy goes, no, it would be weird if you didn't.
Rusty BradleyGUEST
Because the Marines would get 100 feet off the deck, man, and you can't get that situational awareness from anybody else, in my opinion.
23 MINS LATER
Justin CramerHOST
I
Rusty BradleyGUEST
mean, one of the things that I was adamant to do when I got to SF was when we did mounted patrols or foot patrols.
Rusty BradleyGUEST
Unless it was a mission specific task, like if you're assaulting, you know, an objective, obviously, you know, the assaulters saw one saw two is going to go for first, but I was always I always put myself and my JTAC or my CCT was with me in the local support by fire.
Rusty BradleyGUEST
Yeah.
Anthony DyerGUEST
And we're, we're an arrow gunner on a, AC-130 gunship really makes his money, or her money, would be recognizing your malfunction analysis, recognizing what you got, and getting that gun back online.
Anthony DyerGUEST
I know that sounds simple enough, but you can imagine the JTAC, the guys on the ground, needing your close air support, and you can't figure out what's wrong with your gun.
Anthony DyerGUEST
That's why we took immense pride in being the weapons experts of the crew.
Anthony DyerGUEST
And then roughly around 2012, 2013, what the Air Force did was they made a Swiss Army knife in the sky where they combined the aero gunner with the loadmaster as well as the flight engineer.
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