situation? >> the biggest thing in a combat situation i would say is just making sure that you're pointing the sensor where the commander on the ground would like it placed. that you're positioning the aircraft in the best possible location to give them what they need in order to accomplish their mission. >> the issue here how difficult is it to distinguish between targets and what could be civilians that are just in the wrong place? >> well in my experience we never really went kinetic. if we did it was in troops in context situation. we spent most of our time doing intelligence gathering. it's -- we would spend days weeks, sometimes months watching a target. and because of that we become pretty familiar with what the patterns of life are. and then we would turn it over