You're really not understanding... If you're 3 miles off, you suck, period.

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3 miles from even that height is alot..for a nation that prides itself in being high tech. so either the plane sucked or the pilot was at fault you pick one either way, i dont get what peoples problem with fessing up is. maybe its the fact that they have to fess up oh ..every few months.

This is the National Gaurd, not the Air Force.

I bet the pilot just had an old grudge against the school and teachers...

I hope you are being sarcastic.

AS avenger said quite nicely, **** off. it not like the thread title wasn't inflammatory, though.

[edit] finity, it doesn't matter if it was sarcastic or not. that was in incredible bad taste

Um, wow... that's seriously the next town over from mine... rather roo close for comfort.

When you are talking about your own people on your own soil 3 miles off might as well be 300000000000 miles off.

I'm sorry but i just don't like american forces, remember at the start of the war when there were quite a few brits 'accidentaly killed'

So british forces have never made a mistake? and where do you get off saying that we did it on purpose? You seriously think we would gun down our own allies? And if you do, well, wow. you're worse then spiral.

wtf is all I can say.

Does anyone remember maybe a little over a year or something when British forces doing landing training on Gibralter, made a mistake and invaded Spain??

I'm gonna try to find some old News articles.

Because it's a huge US conspiracy to kill our allies.

Again, **** off.

... Are you retarded? I mean, I can accept people being bitter about US forces if their own armed forces have been a victim of friendly fire on account of the US, but actually thinking it was intentional? Call our military inept if you'd like, but your claims of cold-blooded murder are ridiculous beyond all degree.

As for screwups, period - The British acted on a much smaller scale than the US in Iraq, and still managed to have several helicopter accidents completely independent of US forces - Such as the time that two British helicopters crashed into eachother in the middle of nowhere. My point is, accidents happen regardless of nationality. Of course Americans are gonna end up with more military accidents - We have more military. We have a tremendously large military that is *always* engaged in conflict on some part of the globe - I'm not defending *that* - It'd be nice if we had the occasional down-time - But it's not a matter of our forces being less trained, it's just a matter of, when enough rounds are fired, a certain percentage are going to miss.

25 rounds hit 3 miles off-target. Who wants to take a guess at how many rounds hit their target in training exercises this year? Probably hundreds of thousands, if not millions. This guy got disoriented at night, or he was sleep-deprived, or he was not briefed properly, or the barrel of his gun was slightly mis-aligned, or the targeting computer had a hiccup, or a thousand other tiny little things that in the end amount to absolutely nothing.

Dude, this is the National Guard you're talking about. I thought those planes and pilots were supposed to be able to shoot a fly out of the air from 25 miles away, not miss a target by 3 miles.

Wait, I'm sorry, I feel dumb asking this, but was this sarcasm? I don't know where you're from, so I can imagine the term "National Guard" sounding like an elite force to someone unfamiliar with it. On the chance that you were serious, the national guard is like, the 18th line of defense, directly behing the league of women's voters.

Well, somebody has to sandbag Baghdad.

National Guard = Weekend Soldiers. They serve a couple of weekends a month and can get called up to active duty when there is need. They are by no means regular military.

When I heard about this a few days ago, I immediately thought of this:

ya seen it on the news the last couple days, they were way off.

In that case, I'm SO sending an e-mail to my local radio station. -.-

National GUARD.