Yet another tough mission, this time a strike on a VC troop concentration down South in Route Pack 2. I had some political constraints which meant I couldn't attack any sites outside the centre target area, and there were lots of them in the approach zones so I just had to take the heat, grin and bear it. I made it to the target okay, with some AAA adding a few stress counters to some of the pilots and some nasty damage to the Intruder - callsign Easy Money - causing the pilot to dump all of his ordnance. I hit the target, blowing it to bits with rockets, CBU's and Mk-82's, and then made a quick getaway.
On the way out, a long range AAA burst shot down one of the Skyhawks - callsign Shadow - but he was quickly extracted by SAR, so returned to the squadron with half a dozen stress counters, which isn't a surprise. In the debrief, I gained another two VP's and some XP's for the pilots, as well as some useful recon and intelligence shifts, but at the cost of a lot of stress. I decided to splash out on three SO's for some quality R&R, winning back two stress points for the squadron, which means that six out of nine pilots are mission ready, while the other three can recover with some mission downtime.
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