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I thought he'd managed to delete a black box recording, Songy!

I imagine we can kinda guess what's on it, though. It'll be a directive to fire on an enemy position ahead, followed by some stuff about being sure that it IS an enemy position, followed by 'yeah, clear', pause for firing, and then 'oh, sweet Jesus, I think we hit some Brits... '

Probably it continues along the same lines of trying to get an affirmation of what the hell they hit, the same way after the SS Vincennes shot down an Iran Air Airbus over the Gulf a few years ago, scattering civilian passengers all over the waters of the Gulf.

For a country obsessed with shooting, I'm amazed that so many American 'friendly fire' incidents occur. You would think that people proud to tell the difference between a wild turkey and a grouse at 500 yards could spot the difference between a civilian airliner and a fighter jet, or a British military vehicle and a clapped-out enemy Land Rover, particularly with all of their onboard recognition equipment. It's not like consulting little black silhouettes in an 'Enemy Recognition Handbook', for god's sake.

<blockquote data-quote="krizon" data-source="post: 2102556" data-attributes="member: 64950">I thought he&#039;d managed to delete a black box recording, Songy!I imagine we can kinda guess what&#039;s on it, though.&nbsp; It&#039;ll be a directive to fire on an enemy position ahead, followed by some stuff about being sure that it IS an enemy position, followed by &#039;yeah, clear&#039;, pause for firing, and then &#039;oh, sweet Jesus, I think we hit some Brits... &#039;&nbsp; Probably it continues along the same lines of trying to get an affirmation of what the hell they hit, the same way after the SS Vincennes shot down an Iran Air Airbus over the Gulf a few years ago, scattering civilian passengers all over the waters of the Gulf.&nbsp; For a country obsessed with shooting, I&#039;m amazed that so many American &#039;friendly fire&#039; incidents occur.&nbsp; You would think that people proud to tell the difference between a wild turkey and a grouse at 500 yards could spot the difference between a civilian airliner and a fighter jet, or a British military vehicle and a clapped-out enemy Land Rover, particularly with all of their onboard recognition equipment.&nbsp; It&#039;s not like consulting little black silhouettes in an &#039;Enemy Recognition Handbook&#039;, for god&#039;s sake.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="krizon, post: 2102556, member: 64950"] I thought he'd managed to delete a black box recording, Songy! I imagine we can kinda guess what's on it, though. It'll be a directive to fire on an enemy position ahead, followed by some stuff about being sure that it IS an enemy position, followed by 'yeah, clear', pause for firing, and then 'oh, sweet Jesus, I think we hit some Brits... ' Probably it continues along the same lines of trying to get an affirmation of what the hell they hit, the same way after the SS Vincennes shot down an Iran Air Airbus over the Gulf a few years ago, scattering civilian passengers all over the waters of the Gulf. For a country obsessed with shooting, I'm amazed that so many American 'friendly fire' incidents occur. You would think that people proud to tell the difference between a wild turkey and a grouse at 500 yards could spot the difference between a civilian airliner and a fighter jet, or a British military vehicle and a clapped-out enemy Land Rover, particularly with all of their onboard recognition equipment. It's not like consulting little black silhouettes in an 'Enemy Recognition Handbook', for god's sake. [/QUOTE]

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