When I was in Korea, I was present when one of my PATRIOT launchers reset its internal clock. Basically, every hour it runs, it ticks over a little counter, like an odometer. It resets at 9,999 hours. That's 416 day of continual operation (over probably 6+ years).
Everything in the military gets rode and rode adn rode until it's practically falling apart. Including the soldiers. I remember this fine day when we got to bed around midnight, then had to wake up at 1:30am, drive to the hospital, and participate in an exercise. At about 4:30 we go to go home. They were nice...we got to skip PT that morning, so we were allowed to sleep in until 8am! It was amazing.
Anyway, I'm not surprised. Could it be a coverup for casualties? Maybe...but why report any? They could ALL be accidents, and they could report maybe 10 friendly deaths a month.
Statistics: Posted by Satis — Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:51 pm
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If you want to see friendly fire ratings equal deaths caused by enemies, recruit me into your army. If you do it by accident, is it still called 'friendly fire'?
Statistics: Posted by Rinox — Wed Sep 06, 2006 2:22 pm
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http://www.icasualties.org/oif/HNH.aspx
Doesnt this show something very very wrong? I calculate about 20% of all deaths are "non-hostile".
Statistics: Posted by derf — Sun Sep 03, 2006 9:55 am
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