Probably because it's in the Vehicle Request menu, and you can't pull up that menu when you're already in a vehicle. It would be nice if they adjusted it to make Precision Strikes an exception.

You know I have been thinking about this aspect about calling in Orbital strikes from the Vehicle I see one problem problem with that one is that when you call in an orbital strike if you are in the vehicle. you are pretty much Protected and unable to be touched. I have seen in a couple of runs I was doing HAV taking hits from a number of people and not going down. Yes I know they are armored to the hilt. Yet where is it that a Squad leader is any different than any of us. Call in a strike take a chance of getting blasted

Yeah. Because it makes sense that the super soldiers of the future are only allowed to twiddle their thumbs when they go on car trips.

The passenger seat of the LAV is perfect for commanders to queue orders and targets for their squads, they should be able to call orbitals too. In fact it should be easier as LAV's would have more reliable uplinks.

There should even be command LAV's that give commanders squad bonuses.

PROTECTED?

You sit any tank just anywhere to whip out your space phone, and it's as good as dead... and also, even if we could do the 'from map' thing, vehicles don't mesh well with pulling out the map, for reasons that elude me.

Remember, tanks are alot softer than you'd think, its just that one of their bars goes down faster than the other, and people tend to shoot the ones where it's the second bar (seriously, minute the shield is gone, Saggy is naught but an expensive paperweight).