This episode is based on a true event, the shameful and deeply regrettable Tarnak Farm incident, in which on 17 April 2002 an Air Force pilot dropped a laser-guided bomb on Canadian forces, killing four soldiers and wounding eight others. The pilot was a graduate of the US Naval Academy, a former Naval aviator, a student and (later) an instructor of the TopGun school, and a student and (later) an instructor of the corresponding Air Force school.
They say the "Coalition Air Ops Center" but the correct term is the "Combined Air and Space Operations Center," commonly called the CAOC.