[DJ88]

Terry,

When I was in the Gulf in '99 we exercised regularly with the other Yank ships in the battlegroup. Everything scenario you can think of. Even more on our own. Drills for shipboard training. Even tho we were "In Theater".

One thing about the military is if you aren't actually doing what you are trained to do you are practicing. Over and Over agian. You can never do something too many times in simulation. And if you aren't practicing you are sleeping.

Everywhere I have gone we were never too long without some form of training. Off of Haiti we still exercised in between boardings. In the Adriatic. Everywhere.

What really maddens me about his whole thing is that the pilot was told NOT to bomb. He did anyways. And this isn't the only time this has happened. How many know that only a short while ago another hotshot pilot saw Canadian troops on the ground and was barely called off of bombing them into oblivion??? This wasn't the first time this happened. And it won't be the last.

There obviously wasn't ENOUGH control over those flyboys. The best way to describe them IMO is Gunslingers. They just want to kill. There is a fine line between doing this as they are meant to do and gunning for blood. He said he was taking enemy fire. How could he have been. They were shooting at inert targets on a range on the ground. All it comes down to is that he wanted his 'glory'. Well he has it. I hope he never comes near me. I'll show him what I think of his glory shot. It killed people on his side because he didn't want to listen to a direct order and he wanted to be known as the guy who wiped out a bunch of Osama's buddies when he is back at his real job standing around the water cooler after his weekend stint with the reserves. :rolleyes:

Well he wiped some people out. Allies. Canadians. In a marked training area.

I hope he can't sleep at night. :mad:

[ 18 April 2002, 20:37: Message edited by: DJ88 ]