Friendly Fire....What's So Friendly???
While I was eating midnight chow tonight I had an interesting conversation with a fellow soldier from another unit. We were sitting there after dinner drinking a cup of coffee, and he brought up a funny play on words that I have never heard. I got the biggest kick out of it though. What is so friendly about friendly fire?
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Friendly fire (or non-hostile fire) is a term originally adopted by the United States military in reference to an attack on friendly forces by other friendly forces, which may be deliberate (eg. incorrectly identifying the target as the enemy), or accidental (eg. missing the enemy and hitting "friendlies"). Friendly fire is contrasted with fire originating from enemy forces ("enemy fire"). In a friendly fire incident personnel may be killed, or material assets may be damaged or destroyed.
Him having said that got me to thinking if there is such thing as friendly fire, and the simple answer to that is NO!!! With all of the techonolgy that we have today there should never be a friendly fire incident ever, but accidents do happen...even though there is no excuse for it.
Just something that I thought I would share with everyone out there. Thanks for reading.
posted by Will Whitley @ 2:09 AM
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6 Comments:
There really is no such thing as friendly fire.
Yeah! Will has a blog. Can't wait for you to return home. Love you! Leah
Hey Will, great blog. Found it tonight. See that you are from Hot Springs. Visited there a few years back--fun place. Went to Diamond Crater on way back home but did not find the big one. Guess I will have to work for a few more years.
Notice the term "Negligent Discharge." I find it funny that the Army doesn't use "Accidental Discharge." If you discharge your weapon is has to be on purpose so it can only be fired "negligently."
So funny...
I think the lesson to be learned here is that incoming shells have the right-of-way...
You'll have more than friendly fire to worry about here at home:
Republican Congressman Ron Paul recently appeared on nationally syndicated radio and again reiterated his deep concern that foreign troops are mobilizing outside and inside America to be used as assets in a martial law takeover by the Bush administration.
"It's a horrible precedent and it's all part of the NAFTA scheme and globalization and world government."
Hey guys...bring home some of that democracy when you get back, okay?
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