Friendly fire incident 5 us troops killed.

[MAKO69]

5 American Special Operations Forces troops killed in Afghanistan in possible friendly-fire incident.

 

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/06/10/nato-says-5-service-members-killed-in-afghanistan-attack/

[CowboyTodd41]

Bomb came from a B-1, don't know if it's Ellsworth or Dyess deployed right now :(

[Nesher]

very sad news! my condolences to the families.

 

RIP. 

[+ianh755]

I was supporting the air Ops from October 2001 and remember when an ODA team also took friendly fire. That was traced back to a simple mistake using the handheld Laser Designator which, when the batteries were replaced, gave your current GPS co-ordinates until you acknowledged that your GPS location was correct. Only then would it show the targets co-ordinates and in the heat of battle the FAC missed the acknowledgement and thought the GPS co-ordinates the LD was giving him were the targets and called the strike in.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Sayyd_Alma_Kalay_airstrike

 

http://time.com/2854306/the-curse-of-friendly-fire/

Edited June 15, 2014 by ianh755