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Originally posted by Ryanamur:
Well, what can I say? Though it's unmistakenly an accident, the death of 4 members of the 3 Princess Patricia's Light Infantry (and 8 more being injured by the bomb) is very troublesome. Don't get me wrong, their death is a tragic accident that shouldn't be made light of. However, friendly fire is a fact of life in the trenches.  When will Americans learn to identify their target prior to dropping the bombs? It seems that you guys a trigger happy. I can't recal any civilized military that cause so many friendly deaths on the battlefield. I wonder when was the last time Israel killed one of their own soldier (FYI, the Israeli army is the best combat military in the world and it's the only military to win all it's wars in the later half of the 20th century).
Next time, could you please make sure you don't drop live bombs on live troops within a designated live-fire exercise area!
Oh and before you come and bash me for not knowing what the military life is all about, I should probably tell you that I'm a former Canadian Forces pilot who served for 9 1/2 years in as an officer and I'm a graduate of a Military university.
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I do not bash you if you make valid points. You do seem to be saying that the US military is careless though and I would differ with you there. A coupl eof facts...1 American targeting mistakes get way more coverage than similar mistakes made by other forces. Compare the numbers of missions flown/conducted the accident rate I do believe is a reasonable percentage. I do think that the US has a problem coming out of the 90's where all training budgets were nearly zeroed out may be a cause of increased accidents. I also think that it will take a couple of years before the new budgets can make up for the lost training in the 90's.
I agree with you on your assessments of the Israeli's and for the record, I do not deserve the rep of "bashing" people. I do disagree and will argue my points but Only on a couple of notable exceptions I do not attack the individual....I really try to stick to the issues.
On the occasions where Ive gone over the edge and attacked the person, I have apologized in public and in PM to the individuals.