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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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Well next time I'm dropping bombs... I will be sure to do that.
I know it's comforting to be able to find fault with others when something happens to you or yours, but I don't believe you have a chance in heck of finding statistics to support your rather inflamatory and poorely founded statement regarding friendly fire. If you take the number of troops/aircraft deployed and sorties flown by pilots I would suggest you'll find that US friendly fire percentages are no higher or lower than anyone elses. The fact that US forces are a high percentage of those deployed would of course dictate a relatively higher percentage of incidents.
Friendly fire will be a problem, is a problem, and has been a problem anytime men have applied deadly force to solve their problems. The more stand off the platform, the higher the probability of iff errors. The more our militaries use joint operations at the branch and even international level, the more the chance of communications errors (another prime cause of friendly fire accidents).
Pointing fingers and making broad generalisations doesn't really help anything now does is?