Lord Nobby wrote:
Any chance of diverting some funding into training your fUcking military?
Poor bastards are up against enough Shit without being sent into an arena that's above their level of competence.
While it is a tragedy, in situations where an air attack results in a friendly fire incident, it's usually the fault of the guys on the ground being in the wrong place. Especially in the case of bomb drops. It's not like the computer guided systems don't have programmed grid coordinates or anything...
When something like this happens, it's usually because someone either mis-identified the coordinates for the drop (bad spotting), or someone wandered into an area that was pre-identified as a bomb drop coordinate and didn't realize it. The guy's in the F-15's aren't eyeballing targets on the ground with those munitions and picking what looks to be a good spot. They're given the coordinates, authorized to drop, and then drop in the spot they're told. That information ultimately comes from someone on the ground.
That's not to say that someone didn't ***** up between the ground and the air, but you can't assume it was the fault of the guy in the plane...
