Originally posted by outside looking in
there will always be that rare mistake...
Rare? I think the U.S. was involved in at least 4 or 5 friendly fire accidents in the Afghan conflict. What's that? About once a month? Hardly rare.
Anyways, we know the Canadians weren't shooting at the F-16s, so who was? There might have been enemy troops nearby taking shots at them... but were they so close to the Canadian troops that the F-16s thought the enemy was the Canadians? How would the Canadians not know about enemy troops if they were that nearby?
If the American commanders would instruct their pilots a little better (tell them where training zones are, where allied troops are, etc.) then this would not have happened. Thanks to you Yanks, I get to watch live in a few hours as my countrymen come back in coffins and on stretchers, all because of some trigger happy, poorly informed American pilot.
They are supposed to be releasing the results of the investigation in three weeks. Then we will have some answers.