To train or not to train... was Re: [OT] Frog Bashing

> At 05:20 29/05/02 -0700, John wrote:

> another operation and this did not include any training that individual

> units set up.

> [practice, practice, practice..... and more practice! :) ].

Yep.

The spot the Canadians were at when they were bombed was a training range used
by other nations' forces also. The Germans and others have been closely
following the investigation as to "what happened", because they
know it could have been them - they use the same range.

Initial reports from the investigating team (the Canadian-led one)
suggest that the Canuck troops had, in fact, been following all the proper
procedures for a night training exercise in that area. We'll maybe know more
when the two investigations actually say something substantive, but some
initial media (and other) reports suggest that the USAF pilot was told NOT to
release his ordnance several times by his forward controller...

And remember, the Canadians are not there as part of the UN, they are there as
part of the US forces. It's a reinforced battalion fitted into the US
chain-of-command, etc.  They weren't hairing about the wilderness firing
off rounds just for fun... Either way, it was certainly an accident, and a
tragic one.

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