Friendly Fire

[Typhoon1244]

According to an NPR reporter, the latest friendly fire incident was perpetrated by a pair of "F-15 Tomcats." I wonder what they really were...

Anyway, here's my question: it seems like there have been an awful lot of these accidents lately...and not just by aircraft. As we saw last week, artillery and Patriot batteries can screw up too. What I want to know is which of the following statements is true...

(1) The number of friendly fire incidents is increasing alarmingly, suggesting deficiencies in training and technology integration.

(2) The number of friendly fire incidents is normal compared to other conflicts...it's just being reported in more detail by CNN, NBC, BBC, Fox, etc.

Any thoughts?

 

[T-Gates]

Friendly fire incidents are terrible, but a fact of war. You wonder how many cases of friendly fire happened before media insertion into the armed forces. (i.e. WWII, Korea, even Vietnam) The media is hearing about theese instances before some Military inteligence personnel.

Godspeed to our troops,

--03M