"It was a white lead pack A control. We worked various targets throughout the morning with not a lot of success due to weather. However, sometime around 11.00 o'clock Zulu, I spotted near the town of Dakova what looked to be ITP convoy that was stacked up on the west side of the town. I moved north from there to look and see what the reason for the flood of refugees was down at the town of Dakova and what I found was a series of villages that had been set on fire, entire villages set on fire. As I moved up to the north I found the first village that had been set on fire, it looked like it had been burning for quite a long time and was about to burn out. Then as I move further south I see the next village south on fire, fresher fire, still burning vigorously. Cloud cover was somewhat in the way. I moved further to the south, orbit the area, I am able to see underneath the cloud now to the second village that was on fire and I am able to see now another smaller village that is even a fresher fire.

So the picture that I am building now in this south western part of Kosovo is that MUP and VJ forces are methodically working themselves from the north to the south through villages, setting them ablaze and forcing all the Kosovar Albanians out of those villages.

I worked my way down LOC that run south-east into the town of Dakova. On that LOC there weren't any villages to burn but as you work your way south-east every house on that road was set ablaze. I see close to the town of Dakova what looks like civilian vehicles flowing into the town and to the choke point where I saw the 60 plus vehicles stacked out to the east. I work my way back up to the road and I see another house that has just been set ablaze and I spot a three vehicle convoy moving south-east, about a click from the freshest burning house. I clock my wing man's eyes on to the convoy and explain to him what I am seeing there, he gets his eyes on there, we see three uniformly shaped dark green vehicles, they look like duce and a half troop carrying vehicles. They come to a stop at the next house down the road and I am convinced now that it is the VJ and MUP forces working their way down towards Dakova and the refugees and they are preparing to set this next house on fire.

I take my system, my targeting pod, and I make several passes over these vehicles to ensure that they are in fact military vehicles, I roll in on two passes to get a close look both with my eyeballs and with my targeting pod IR picture and at this point, this is about 25 minutes into building the whole picture of the destruction that is following from north to south, into the town of Dakova, and I make a decision at that point that these are the people responsible for burning down the villages that I have seen so far. I roll in, put my system on the lead vehicle and execute a laser-guided bomb attack on that vehicle, destroying the lead vehicle. From there my wing man is low on fuel so we end up having to depart the area. On my way out of the area I pass my BDA to AB triple C and to the forward air controller that is coming in to replace me, I pass him target co-ordinates, a threat up-date of the area and a general description of the three vehicle convoy that we have prosecuted an attack on.

>From that point I leave the AEO and the RTPN finds the target area that I briefed to him and he now spots three large trucks in the middle of the compound, or the housing area next to where we had just attacked, and he proceeds to execute a _laser attack on those vehicles."