confused communications between the ground and air crews resulted in the bombs being programmed to hit friendly ground troops.
the pilots were unaware of an 11,000-foot altitude restriction that had been placed over the exercise area
Canadian officials said their troops were practicing "surface-to-surface firing, not ground-to-air."
there was no hostile activity in the area that would have created this incident
Afghan fighters manning a checkpoint near the accident site reported seeing eight or 10 red streaks heading skyward at a 45-degree angle, which they assumed to be tracer bullets from the exercise.
sbcanada said:First off, what is with people with shouting out "SBCANADA" in caps, as if they are revealing some secret? Everybody knows I was sbcanada so shut the hell up and call me by my present name.
Why do you assume I will never be in someone's military? I very well could be in the future. Are you some kind of fortune teller or psychic? Fuck off.
Many of my posts do indeed intend to stir up some controversy. That is what makes a site like this interesting. Deal with it.
mo·ron Pronunciation Key (môrn, mr-)
n.
A stupid person; a dolt.
Psychology. A person of mild mental retardation having a mental age of from 7 to 12 years and generally having communication and social skills enabling some degree of academic or vocational education. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
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[From Greek mron, neuter of mros, stupid, foolish.]
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mo·ronic (m-rnk, mô-) adj.
mo·roni·cal·ly adv.
moronism or mo·roni·ty (m-rn-t, mô-) n.
moron
n : a person of subnormal intelligence [syn: idiot, imbecile, cretin, changeling, half-wit, retard]
moron
\Mo"ron\, n. (Pedagogy) A person whose intellectual development proceeds normally up to about the eighth year of age and is then arrested so that there is little or no further development.
cretin
/kret'in/ or /kree'tn/ n. Congenital loser; an obnoxious person; someone who can't do anything right. It has been observed that many American hackers tend to favor the British pronunciation /kret'in/ over standard American /kree'tn/; it is thought this may be due to the insidious phonetic influence of Monty Python's Flying Circus.