U.S.A.: We dropped a bomb on ourselves. Oops.
Does anybody find this to be EXTREMELY disturbing?
Here's the U.S.A., considered by many to be the most powerful country in the world, and someone SCREWED UP so badly as to drop a bomb on our own soliders!
3 dead and 19 injured because of a mistake made by the most intelligent and militarily strong nation on this planet.
That's totally unacceptable.
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Here's the U.S.A., considered by many to be the most powerful country in the world, and someone SCREWED UP so badly as to drop a bomb on our own soliders!
3 dead and 19 injured because of a mistake made by the most intelligent and militarily strong nation on this planet.
That's totally unacceptable.
[ 12-06-2001: Message edited by: CosmoNut ]</p>
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Our Apaches launched hellfires and other nasty weapons at our tanks in Desert Storm, for example.
The US marines have a 12 weeks basic training.
Royal Marines have a 36 weeks basic training.
enough said....
<strong>The US only send ground troops in if there are street lamps and a Burger King!
The US marines have a 12 weeks basic training.
Royal Marines have a 36 weeks basic training.
enough said....
Perhaps someone has to have things told to them three times before they get it
I heard a good one yesterday in a daily serious and analytical radio news program on one of our our national radio station: The basic equipment for an american soldier is sunblock and a Visa card. Perhaps now a big signs aying "Don´t bomb. I am an american" should be added.
<strong>You don't want to know the type of reputation that the US military has over here in the UK. In Desert Storm we lost more men to US fire than we did to Iraq's.</strong><hr></blockquote>
You forgot to mention that those brits wandered in the the "kill zone". (or at least some of them did) You may want to look into buying some GPS devices.
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<strong>Loss of life due to frindly fire is unnacceptable no matter who it happens to.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Of course it is. If it weren't we'd never go to war. That's one of the risk when you go to war and friendly fire is an acceptable risk.
Remind our troops not to run with scissors too.
<strong>Loss of life due to frindly fire is unnacceptable no matter who it happens to. But to say that the US military is poorly trained is a false assumption. I think our track record in wars backs us here. However, what confuses me is that the bomb that was dropped was a JDAM right? Laser guided... So who "painted" our guys? Or was it a mechanical defect in the bomb itself? That is the question that I have.</strong><hr></blockquote>
It was a new type of bomb that is guided by a gps system. The crew that launches it enters the coordinates and then the bomb uses gps to destroy those coordinates. Currently, it is believed the gps system failed for some unknown reason or the bomb crew put in the wrong coordinates. Accidents do happen. No one is perfect. That is why we call them 'accidents'.
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Of course it is. If it weren't we'd never go to war. That's one of the risk when you go to war and friendly fire is an acceptable risk.
Remind our troops not to run with scissors too.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Hmmm, No thoughts on the rest of my post. Just read the first sentance and forget the rest?
Oh, and you should never run with scissors.
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It was a new type of bomb that is guided by a gps system. The crew that launches it enters the coordinates and then the bomb uses gps to destroy those coordinates. Currently, it is believed the gps system failed for some unknown reason or the bomb crew put in the wrong coordinates. Accidents do happen. No one is perfect. That is why we call them 'accidents'.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Thank you, that was helpful. And as far as it being an accident, that is what I figured, unless the bomb was laser guided the opposing side somehow had the ability to "paint" the wrong area. But since it was GPS guided...
<strong>Remind me how ANY fire in war is friendly? <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>
Ummm, ok. If your fire at your "friends" then that is called "friendly fire". Not a very friendly thing to do but that is what it is.
<strong>Does anybody find this to be EXTREMELY disturbing?
Here's the U.S.A., considered by many to be the most powerful country in the world, and someone SCREWED UP so badly as to drop a bomb on our own soliders!
3 dead and 19 injured because of a mistake made by the most intelligent and militarily strong nation on this planet.
That's totally unacceptable.
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it's a ****ing war with thousands of missiles in a ****ing desert. shit happens.
it's amazing. 4 americans die in combat over 2 months in 2001. yet thousands could die every week in past wars.. put things in perspective here. 4 americans dead is amazing. this kind of unfortunate mishaps happens all the time.
Joseph Heller, Catch 22.
<strong>"The enemy is anybody who is going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."
Joseph Heller, Catch 22.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Of course the guys there now are not looking for a way out.
Ever seen that Doonsberry? The missile flies towars the powerplant, in the door, through the coffe lounge and then you have the general saying "Shortly after that it flew out a window and blew up a parking lot, but its impressive none the less".