Talk:Ashes: An Airman's Diary/@comment-25148755-20150307204948/@comment-10502460-20200121054659

I haven't served in the military, but I know USAF pilots would not be called "soldiers."

I also don't think there are any bombers USAF has used since Vietnam that would only do a bombing sortie with a one-man crew, but I could be wrong about that.

Carpet/saturation bombing hasn't really been a standard strategy since the Vietnam War, but a bombing run of a rural community with insurgent activity is plausible I guess. But this story gives the impression that the Air Force is doing constant bombing runs over a period of months in whatever war is going on in the story, like in World War II, and that's really not a feature of our modern wars to my knowledge.