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What pisses me off is:
1) Nobody thought it was important to tell the pilot that allied forces were in the area doing live-fire night training.
2) The "disciplinary measures" seem to be entirely restricted to the pilots, e.g. scapegoats. I'd like to know that procedures have been changed so that the risk of this happening again is minimized.
I'm fully aware that mistakes and losses happen in war, and I was certainly not so naive as to think that we would take no casualties in Afghanistan. However, it hurts that these could have been avoided so easily, and that there is apparently no change in procedure (if there has been, I would appreciate somebody in the know telling me about it). Two sentences in the pre-flight briefing could have made the pilot act differently.
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